Post by Gee Dean on Dec 27, 2005 10:25:57 GMT 7
High Performance Chassis Reinforcement, Strut Tower Bars, Lower Tie Bar, Stabilizer and Under Brace strengthen vehicle chassis, and improving the feel and handling for performance driving. When you drive into a turn, your chassis flexes due to its size and weight. This prevents the suspension and steering from doing their job properly. With the addition of chassis braces, strut bars, tie bars, lower stabilizer and under brace reinforcement the car is stiffened and responds to your steering more predictably.
Strut Bars
One of the most common upgrades on a modified car is mounting strut bars. A strut bar (also known as strut tower bar or strut brace) is designed to tie the two opposing strut towers together as a single solid unit.
The purpose of this device is to reduce flex that these towers experience during hard cornering. When taking a turn a car's strut towers normally flex, resulting body flex and losing some traction. As strut tower bars are designed to keep your strut towers from flexing, they distribute the pressure applied to one strut tower when taking a turn to both towers instead of just one. This keeps the wheels in position. Keeping the wheels in position helps keeping the tires in the desired position on the road, and this will help to improve traction on the turns.
Rear strut tower bars are designed to work like the front bar by tying the two rear strut to work together, increasing the overall chassis stiffness. Rear strut bars minimize under steer due to less chassis flex and improves stability during corner braking.
Strut bars are a must for any upgrade to a wider tire&wheel combination. Addition of suspension upgrades such as sports springs, shocks and low-profile tires adds additional stress to the chassis which result in chassis flex. Strut bars not only reinforce the sub frame and improve chassis stiffness but also make steering quicker and more responsive.
On most applications, strut bars install in minutes and they look shiny and cool. However, looks have little to do with performance. To reduce the flex between struts, the setup should be as rigid as possible. In fact, a true strut bar doesn't have joints and look like an 'X', so go for it for a more rigid frame if you have time and money.
Example picture for type of bar
DESCRIPTION:The Front Strut Bar is installed to minimize the weight transfer of the vehicle body, therefore the vehicle will not loose traction easily during cornering.
ANTI ROLL BARS
Anti Roll Bars (also known as anti-sway bars, sway bars or lower tie bars) affect the handling of the car on the lower end of the suspension. Sway bars tie the lower suspension components together across the front or back, and affect a car’s over steer and under steer.
Sway bars will keep your car flat in turns instead of leaning over to one side. They distribute energy from the side of the car with all the force from the turn on it to the other side of the car, bringing the whole car down flat instead of leaning to one side. Of course the car will still lean some, but not as much.
Sway bars provide better cornering especially at high speeds and work very well in conjunction with strut tower bars. However, they can have an adverse affect in off-road situations by leaving one tire completely off the ground.
DESCRIPTION: A chassis reinforcement part for the underside where the left and right suspension arms are connected to prevent twist of the suspension members that commonly occurs when cornering. The bracing controls the change of the alignment and ensures upmost suspension efficiency.
ROOM BARS
It is the bar linking both the b-pillars within the passenger compartment. The effect of room bar is particularly obvious for a four-door sedan. This is because four-door sedan has a longer body than the hatch-back or coupe, the chassis is by nature weaker than the later two. Room Bar is designed to strengthen the middle chassis body to reduce chassis flex to its MINIMUM under all kind of road conditions or even on race tracks.
FENDER BARS vs. The Vertical Loads
As most of the vehicle’s front chassis over hanging is designated to carry the vertical loads from the front suspensions, it is vital that this part of the chassis is strong enough to take the bounce and rebound force of the suspension. Else, the effort of a good suspension will lose its meaning if the chassis absorbs all the forces from the suspension and not letting the suspension does what it suppose to do.
Advantage of the fender bar
Improve handling, stability at high speed and cornering.
Provide a better braking and stopping performance.
Increase the safety level of your vehicle.
Reduce NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness).
Increase stiffness of chassis and reduce body crack.
[img src="http://www.ultraracing.com.my/ourproduct/ourproduct_images/All-Bar-Fender-Bar-.jpg"][img src="http://www.ultraracing.com.my/ourproduct/ourproduct_images/All-Bar-Fender-Bar-.jpg"]
REAR BARS & REAR UPPER BARS
Rear Strut Bar is particularly useful for an FF vehicle. The Understeer behavior can be corrected by stiffening the rear chassis by Rear Bar.
High attention is taken during the design and development stage to ensure the rear chassis is reinforced and strengthened in a proper way that it will not cause the vehicle body under too much of stress.
Rear Upper Bars is designed for vehicles with high roof and high CG (Centre of Gravity) such as MPV, mini MPV, SUV and Hatch Back.
Initially, Rear Upper Bar is invented specially for the 5 Doors Hatch Back cars. The 5 Door Hatch Back cars have weaker rear upper body due to their wide opening rear door. Under extensive investigation and actual road proving, it corrected the shortcoming of the vehicle’s swaying rear upper body.
[glow=red,2,300]Non-adjustable strut bars are more rigid than adjustable strut bars. Therefore, they provide higher safety, comfort and stability under hard driving condition.[/glow]
This is why adjustable cheap strut bars suck! See the comparison.
adjustable
Strut Bar Comparison
Non Adjustable
Adjustable Strut Bar
Strut Bars
One of the most common upgrades on a modified car is mounting strut bars. A strut bar (also known as strut tower bar or strut brace) is designed to tie the two opposing strut towers together as a single solid unit.
The purpose of this device is to reduce flex that these towers experience during hard cornering. When taking a turn a car's strut towers normally flex, resulting body flex and losing some traction. As strut tower bars are designed to keep your strut towers from flexing, they distribute the pressure applied to one strut tower when taking a turn to both towers instead of just one. This keeps the wheels in position. Keeping the wheels in position helps keeping the tires in the desired position on the road, and this will help to improve traction on the turns.
Rear strut tower bars are designed to work like the front bar by tying the two rear strut to work together, increasing the overall chassis stiffness. Rear strut bars minimize under steer due to less chassis flex and improves stability during corner braking.
Strut bars are a must for any upgrade to a wider tire&wheel combination. Addition of suspension upgrades such as sports springs, shocks and low-profile tires adds additional stress to the chassis which result in chassis flex. Strut bars not only reinforce the sub frame and improve chassis stiffness but also make steering quicker and more responsive.
On most applications, strut bars install in minutes and they look shiny and cool. However, looks have little to do with performance. To reduce the flex between struts, the setup should be as rigid as possible. In fact, a true strut bar doesn't have joints and look like an 'X', so go for it for a more rigid frame if you have time and money.
Example picture for type of bar
DESCRIPTION:The Front Strut Bar is installed to minimize the weight transfer of the vehicle body, therefore the vehicle will not loose traction easily during cornering.
ANTI ROLL BARS
Anti Roll Bars (also known as anti-sway bars, sway bars or lower tie bars) affect the handling of the car on the lower end of the suspension. Sway bars tie the lower suspension components together across the front or back, and affect a car’s over steer and under steer.
Sway bars will keep your car flat in turns instead of leaning over to one side. They distribute energy from the side of the car with all the force from the turn on it to the other side of the car, bringing the whole car down flat instead of leaning to one side. Of course the car will still lean some, but not as much.
Sway bars provide better cornering especially at high speeds and work very well in conjunction with strut tower bars. However, they can have an adverse affect in off-road situations by leaving one tire completely off the ground.
DESCRIPTION: A chassis reinforcement part for the underside where the left and right suspension arms are connected to prevent twist of the suspension members that commonly occurs when cornering. The bracing controls the change of the alignment and ensures upmost suspension efficiency.
ROOM BARS
It is the bar linking both the b-pillars within the passenger compartment. The effect of room bar is particularly obvious for a four-door sedan. This is because four-door sedan has a longer body than the hatch-back or coupe, the chassis is by nature weaker than the later two. Room Bar is designed to strengthen the middle chassis body to reduce chassis flex to its MINIMUM under all kind of road conditions or even on race tracks.
FENDER BARS vs. The Vertical Loads
As most of the vehicle’s front chassis over hanging is designated to carry the vertical loads from the front suspensions, it is vital that this part of the chassis is strong enough to take the bounce and rebound force of the suspension. Else, the effort of a good suspension will lose its meaning if the chassis absorbs all the forces from the suspension and not letting the suspension does what it suppose to do.
Advantage of the fender bar
Improve handling, stability at high speed and cornering.
Provide a better braking and stopping performance.
Increase the safety level of your vehicle.
Reduce NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness).
Increase stiffness of chassis and reduce body crack.
[img src="http://www.ultraracing.com.my/ourproduct/ourproduct_images/All-Bar-Fender-Bar-.jpg"][img src="http://www.ultraracing.com.my/ourproduct/ourproduct_images/All-Bar-Fender-Bar-.jpg"]
REAR BARS & REAR UPPER BARS
Rear Strut Bar is particularly useful for an FF vehicle. The Understeer behavior can be corrected by stiffening the rear chassis by Rear Bar.
High attention is taken during the design and development stage to ensure the rear chassis is reinforced and strengthened in a proper way that it will not cause the vehicle body under too much of stress.
Rear Upper Bars is designed for vehicles with high roof and high CG (Centre of Gravity) such as MPV, mini MPV, SUV and Hatch Back.
Initially, Rear Upper Bar is invented specially for the 5 Doors Hatch Back cars. The 5 Door Hatch Back cars have weaker rear upper body due to their wide opening rear door. Under extensive investigation and actual road proving, it corrected the shortcoming of the vehicle’s swaying rear upper body.
[glow=red,2,300]Non-adjustable strut bars are more rigid than adjustable strut bars. Therefore, they provide higher safety, comfort and stability under hard driving condition.[/glow]
This is why adjustable cheap strut bars suck! See the comparison.
adjustable
Strut Bar Comparison
Non Adjustable
Adjustable Strut Bar