We are finally getting caught up on the early orders for our 32mm Hollow
bar for the front of the STi's and WRX's. I just had truck here with 9 of
them on board that are not spoken for. Price is $199 plus shipping. Note
that there will be a slight price increase soon due to the cost of steel.
Details about the bar:
--The bar is made of 32mm hollow material using 5mm walled tubing, weight
is 9 pounds.
--Mounts to stock body mounts using supplied brackets and urethane mount
buhsings. Slight bending of the u-brackets may be necessary on some
cars. This is easily accomplished
--Our bar does not use the Subaru OEM style endlinks, but rather an
L-bracket the mounts to the lower control arm.
Q: Why did we decide on a such a large front bar? Wouldn't that make
understeer worse on a nose-heavy car?
A: We chose this course of action for a number of reasons, these are the
two largest: First is that the Subaru's have a terrible camber curve, all
you need to do is look at a typical front shot of a car in action and note
the positive camber on the front wheel. No matter how much static camber
you can get in, you lose it all to body roll. That in turn makes for a
very poor contact patch and a loss in front grip. Swaybars are much more
effective at controlling body roll than are springs, even BIG springs. We
felt that in order for the Subaru's to become truly fast that the best use
of the front tires had to be made. Secondly, we found the cars tended to
lift the inside rear tire right off the ground defeating a lot of the
advantage of the AWD. Again, a larger front bar works to counter this by
keeping the car more level, leaving the rear tire down on the ground more
often. The result is a car that has no more understeer than before, and
normally quite a bit less due to the better contact patch, as well as an
increased ability to accelerate off of corners. There are other reasons,
and if you'd like to talk those over, just contact me.
Is the bar proven? Yes it is. Joel Fehrman has worked on this with us
from the beginning. His car has the prototype bar on it, and has from the
beginning of year, including the two Atlanta National events where the car
dominated ESP and SM both. Later Tommy Pulliam won the Peru Tour by 2.1
over Joel in 2nd with ace driver Mark Jorgensen (who gives me all I can
handle) in 3rd.
Atlanta Tour results:
http://www.scca.com/_Filelibrary/Fil...tlanta-sun.pdf
Peru Tour results:
http://www.scca.com/_Filelibrary/Fil...tlanta-sun.pdf
Toledo Tour results:
http://www.scca.com/_Filelibrary/Fil...toledo-sun.pdf
Atlanta Pro results: can't link them, SCCA's site won't let me. :)
Joel has posted pictures here, and you can also see opinions from others
who have gotten early versions of the bar. Please note the directions have
been cleaned up a
bit.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...5&page=4&pp=25
Sam Strano Jr.
Strano Performance Parts
Orders: 800-729-1831
Tech-line 814-849-3450
www.stranoparts.com