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Offline Roger Sieber

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« on: October 24, 2004, 04:51:42 pm »
I've had my front and rear strut bars for awhile now, the other day I noticed that they both had some play by the mounting bolts. Now my question is, is it better to have the strut bars in compression or tension?
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Offline Tim Hunt

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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2004, 08:35:21 pm »
With the suspension/chassis design of the DSM's compression. But the diffences are negligable, expecially on the 2G front bars which have a bend in them.
As long as it is tight, the benefits should be there.
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Offline Mike Schmid

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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2004, 02:03:09 am »
There was a big discussion about this a while ago.  Basically if you think about it, cornering forces make the tops of the strut towers flex together, the bar is there to keep them apart.  So you want wide as opposed to narrow, ideally you'd jack the car up and adjust it so it's snugs up to the studs when it's adjusted to be wide.
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Offline Leon Hui

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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2004, 11:24:02 am »
In other words, make it push out more :)

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Offline Kimyee Lai

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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2004, 12:02:17 pm »
You don't really want to make it push out more either.  It's is just to put a little bit of pre-compression on the bar so that you're not transitioning from tension to compression when loading the bar.
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Offline Leon Hui

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« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2004, 05:28:25 pm »
Quote from: "Kimyee Lai"
You don't really want to make it push out more either.  It's is just to put a little bit of pre-compression on the bar so that you're not transitioning from tension to compression when loading the bar.


So we shouldn't put it on while the car is jacked up?
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