View Poll Results: STB make a noticeable difference?
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STB make a difference?
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This is correct. I never got to try it, but I beleive it would have helped the twisting effect up front and the weight would have been moved off the nose and further back to the strut towers.
4th gens have shock towers.
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Most of my driving is on very curvy 2 lane and I thought it felt a little tighter. I like the way it looks and it made me feel good. So that's an improvement right there. I can't really say if it actually improved the car much, but I'm glad I put it on.
Exactly, engine jewelery. Not really serving a purpose other than to look good and make you feel good. I'm not knocking it because I have one on my car as well. I'll probably be pulling it off the next time I think about it.
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I noticed that as well since most of those who were favouring the STB didn't list things like good shocks, 35/22 stabiliser bars, and a proper set of lowering springs in their sig's.
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I don't think fourth gens need them because they're designed to take the load. Third gens on the other hand... lets just say that people have bent their firewall up after installing a 3 point stb. 
Edit: I may have forgotten to say that they were running coil overs...
Edit: I may have forgotten to say that they were running coil overs...
Last edited by 87formy; Nov 30, 2007 at 05:22 PM.
My $.02.... YMMV. 
I don't run one on my car. Some folks swear by them. I won't say they are wrong or I'm right, I didn't see it helping. But my car was never banged up front, and doesn't have 100k miles on it. Can they hurt? No, and they aren't expensive. It's one of those things that is just an individual decision. I think there are better things to spend money on at first, but that's me.
I don't run one on my car. Some folks swear by them. I won't say they are wrong or I'm right, I didn't see it helping. But my car was never banged up front, and doesn't have 100k miles on it. Can they hurt? No, and they aren't expensive. It's one of those things that is just an individual decision. I think there are better things to spend money on at first, but that's me.
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They get in the way if you work on your car.
I bolt in bar just can't work. It can't. Surely, there is a couple .00x of play in the fasteners and that is all the more the body flexs anyways.
But, I think a member from the radiator support to the towers could help with crash issues.
I bolt in bar just can't work. It can't. Surely, there is a couple .00x of play in the fasteners and that is all the more the body flexs anyways.
But, I think a member from the radiator support to the towers could help with crash issues.
i had an experience that made me beleive that the STB has some impact on the front end flex.
i first installed a STB on my 96Z. did it in a dirt parking spot in front of my apartment, the ground was not level. the car was in at an angle so that the front driver side was about 6" higher than the rear passenger wheel.
i bolted everything down and went for a ride. the road just outside of town had alot of uneven dips in it...not so much a bump...just uneven pavement.
within 4 miles i had a stress crack in the bottom middle of my windshield.
i had driven that road hundreds of times...and more aggressive quite a few of those times.
what was different today??
the STB was bolted in with the chassis flexed due to the parking location.
parked the car on even pavement...lossened the bolts and retightened. had the window replaced and i never had another problem with it...driving the same road many more times.
so to me...if the chassis can flex that much when parked...the STB can't be hurting the ridgidity of the front in any way.
i'll say it felt more solid...but in reality...i'm sure that was in my head.
i first installed a STB on my 96Z. did it in a dirt parking spot in front of my apartment, the ground was not level. the car was in at an angle so that the front driver side was about 6" higher than the rear passenger wheel.
i bolted everything down and went for a ride. the road just outside of town had alot of uneven dips in it...not so much a bump...just uneven pavement.
within 4 miles i had a stress crack in the bottom middle of my windshield.
i had driven that road hundreds of times...and more aggressive quite a few of those times.
what was different today??
the STB was bolted in with the chassis flexed due to the parking location.
parked the car on even pavement...lossened the bolts and retightened. had the window replaced and i never had another problem with it...driving the same road many more times.
so to me...if the chassis can flex that much when parked...the STB can't be hurting the ridgidity of the front in any way.
i'll say it felt more solid...but in reality...i'm sure that was in my head.