Installed a new bar in a friends xA.

 

that's total sex....too bad i already have a strut bar...

 

How much and where? Also I see the headlights on the xa and they look blue? How do you do that and does it affect visbility.

 

Check the commerce section for JDm strut bar on price.

AS for the lights that is blue headlight protection film that prevents rocks, dirt and other debris from damaging your light while adding color. They do not effect visibility of light at night. It actually improves it. Got them on my tC and this is Joey's xA and she loves them so much her man Rj is getting them for his box.

Those can be found on our site or commerce section as well.

 

moved to corner carvers

scott

 

As pretty as that is I don't suppose it is so smart a design. I would rather have steel endplates than aluminum.

Confessing a bias toward the Tanabe-type of bar, which is a tension rod, adjustable, to put the towers into a state of permanent preload (pulling them toward each other)

I don't yet find any other bar operating on the preload principle touted by Tanabe. All the other brands I see rely on brute stiffness alone, and may be just ducky but... look at them for resistance to both compression and extension stresses and decide which type is best resistant.

See, if we preload a truss member to a strain level that the car's towers would never exceed on their own under any circumstance, then this results:

-the truss rod may be light and yet is is absolutely resistant to both -extension and compression strains-. In other words: as virtually perfectly stiffening to the strut towers as anything could be. All at low mass, size and relatively light weight.

I am gonna buy a tanabe bar today from RoBear Racing (if they have stock!) and determine one last thing: that tension rod you see, I am about sure it runs clear through that aluminum stretcher. If so, the only purpose of the stretcher is to stiffen the tensioned steel rod so it does not vibrate like some piano string in tune with engine vibes at some critical, harmonic resonance.




bottom line: that's still a very pretty, unusal styled bar and it will do the job fine I think.. I just like "mechanically correct" stuff better and am a bug about this sort of thing. thanks

 

While I agree with you from my past experiences from the VW community the technology and understadning of flex bars have chnaged greatly over the last few years.

APR Performance makes very high quality products and does there research. You are free to order whatever floats your boat, but I thought I would bring some more info into this.

The APR Flex Control Bar is also made of 6061 billet aluminum. The construction is very solid. A side by side comparison with other aftermarket bars shows the difference in strength and rigidity.

Non-Pivoting, Interlocking Joints – Because of the interlocking joints and stainless steel bolts that hold the APR Flex Control Bars together, there is absolutely no way for these strut bars to flex in any direction.

 

I have the bB version of that same bar on my ride and it has been great.
The way the main plate bolts down over the strut tower then the "knuckle" for the bar itself is placed and how it can be adjusted.

 

looks awsome

 

Yes it does

 

making it slot for the 2 inner bolts also i gezz will make installation easier... cos the 2 bolts are quite difficult to access... nice!.. did anyone mention how much are they?

 

Please check commerce for pricing

 

So before I order this as a birthday gift to myself, can someone recommend other strut bars as well?