Installed. Yep, def noticeably stiffer in the front end when going thru curves at speed. I had a similar experience with installing a bar in my Abarth 500. Everyone posted that it was useless, purely esthetic. In reality, big diff in handling on street and on track.
@@antdo amazing difference between the Cusco and tb rear haha can’t wait for the twisty back roads now just took her down a smaller back road today but wow
I installed mine today after watching your video which was helpful, thank you! I felt bad for you as those harness clips are super easy to remove, just get pliers and grab the two tabs on the bottom of them and then you can pull them right out.
Glad you like it! I've seen some studies or data (for 3 series BMWs, I think) that showed strut bars on some older models (e30, maybe e36) have some noticeable effect, but almost no difference on newer gens (e46+)... and as with most vehicles I think the chassiss have gotten rigid enough that they don't do much other than look fancy and make some maintenance take longer for some tasks, haha.
You’re not wrong, after installing a beefy front strut brace on my e46 M3 the entire front end became too stiff and the car started to understeer under hard corners.
Strut bars work on McPherson strut cars without a doubt. McPherson struts don’t have an upper control arm so the strut does take more than vertical stresses and is a stress member. Tying the towers together helps relieve some of the unwanted motion. On a double wishbone car it’s not necessary at all but still worth trying for a couple hundred bucks.
Being that the GR Corolla has a steel brace joining the strut towers which also ties into the firewall in a number of spots. Any aftermarket strut brace only is purely for show and ultimately a waste of money
The caveat to this though is that if you remove the steel OEM brace/cowling maybe because your running aftermarket coilovers with adjustment etc. a brace between the towers could replace the OEM piece.
Installed. Yep, def noticeably stiffer in the front end when going thru curves at speed.
I had a similar experience with installing a bar in my Abarth 500. Everyone posted that it was useless, purely esthetic. In reality, big diff in handling on street and on track.
As long as the bracket it is connected to is connected to the strut tower. It should work as intended
It's bolted to the side of the fender
Thank you, was wondering how strutbar fitted on Corolla with struts so far back
I hate to say it. But that looks like 100% a show piece.
I have a Cusco front supposed to be in today with a tb performance rear
Let me know how you like them when you get them installed
@@antdo amazing difference between the Cusco and tb rear haha can’t wait for the twisty back roads now just took her down a smaller back road today but wow
Where are the accord video updates?
Coming soon
It probably helps a tiny bit. But depending on how thick or thin that struct tower bracket it. IT probably won't do much on track.
We'll see April 8th I guess
Where are the track Accord Videos?
Coming soon
Already got some goodies lol 😎
Can't stay stock forever. Just waiting for that spoiler next 😉
@antdo does the strut bar get in the way of the old filler cap?
No , you can still access the oil cap.
Looks good at least.
Thanks. I guess lol
I'm in the all show and no go vote on this one. I'm guessing you just have improved confidence in the car after the track day.
Can't wait to see how it does on track. Would consider it. Any idea where you're going to redeem your free track day?
It would probably redeem it at MSR- C
@@antdo is that at COTA? Maybe I missed that on the list.
No, NASA no longer holds official events at COTA
@@antdo What is MSR- C?
MSR Cresson
Tom's is just rebranded Cusco parts?
Yes😂
Looks good. Probably won't be good lol.
I installed mine today after watching your video which was helpful, thank you! I felt bad for you as those harness clips are super easy to remove, just get pliers and grab the two tabs on the bottom of them and then you can pull them right out.
Glad you like it! I've seen some studies or data (for 3 series BMWs, I think) that showed strut bars on some older models (e30, maybe e36) have some noticeable effect, but almost no difference on newer gens (e46+)... and as with most vehicles I think the chassiss have gotten rigid enough that they don't do much other than look fancy and make some maintenance take longer for some tasks, haha.
You’re not wrong, after installing a beefy front strut brace on my e46 M3 the entire front end became too stiff and the car started to understeer under hard corners.
I was a little wrong... counterproductive is worse than a cool looking nuisance, haha. Cheers!@@Zack_Axel
Strut bars work on McPherson strut cars without a doubt. McPherson struts don’t have an upper control arm so the strut does take more than vertical stresses and is a stress member. Tying the towers together helps relieve some of the unwanted motion.
On a double wishbone car it’s not necessary at all but still worth trying for a couple hundred bucks.
@@epap1375 Sounds logical. Don't think I will bother for my dailys, but I follow your logic!
AWD cars FTW!
Are you still happy with this strut bar?
For that model is just cosmetic... u can significantly say the difference when connecting it to both shockbreaker support
I just don't see this bar doing that much on track under heavy Gs
We'll see April 8th I guess
Being that the GR Corolla has a steel brace joining the strut towers which also ties into the firewall in a number of spots. Any aftermarket strut brace only is purely for show and ultimately a waste of money
The caveat to this though is that if you remove the steel OEM brace/cowling maybe because your running aftermarket coilovers with adjustment etc. a brace between the towers could replace the OEM piece.
It’s identical to the Cusco bar. Except toms is ugly. The instructions are even the same
First
In line for a circuit at msrp 😏
Stop messing with it 😢
This model is just cosmetic…
Not really functional , except useful to destroy some more parts if you get into another car or obstacle with one side .