Struts bars or anything to stiffen up the chasis

shishcabobers · 08-03-2006, 06:33 PM

I love to touge and i need something to help with the understreer and Well to be honest the forenza is a good car but....there is no way i can stiffen up the chasis. I know there is sway bars but im a budget tuner i dont have that kind of money yet.i notice that we can't even have strut bars because of the one bolt that holds the strut and in the rear strut it is virtually impossible to have a rear strut bar because they are isolated. We cant even put c-pillar bars on our car. I cant find anything i wish there could be a H-brace or something. But i did find this one thing which was universal but i dont think it would work either i'm not sure. Will bms make something to stiffen up the car like a h-brace which is cheap for the budget tuners out there.

ligerx · 08-03-2006, 09:43 PM

well for what i understand that there are no strut bars make for the forenza nor the reno

Zipper · 08-03-2006, 10:19 PM

How fast are you going when you turn?! The understeers unnoticable till you hit 90, to my exsperiance. Kinky would know.

shishcabobers · 08-04-2006, 12:04 AM

i touge otherwise mountain roads i guess there nice and tight.I dont go to the track. I mean i could have better grip if i had better tires but i dont have the money for new tires yet. Also uhh..."doesn't understeer until 90" i think thats virtually impossible to take a tight turn at 90 in a forenza. not to be bad or anything.never went that fast taking a turn. And yes the car understeers its rear ugly head because of the optimal body roll and i have springs

Zipper · 08-04-2006, 01:03 AM

Mountains are different. I'm a City guy. Tight turns arnt there on the freeways except in Downtown LA, where the freeways date back to a 45 MPH speed limit. Every front wheel car has understeer. Its the nature of the beast. If your asking for struts and such,you obviously have the plans for something. Include Tires and rims. Trust me, the hancooks arnt worth the rubber there made of

kinkyllama · 08-04-2006, 02:10 AM

Before long I'm going to try to have some type of chassis bar made that will bolt under the car to stiffen up the whole chassis. It wouldn't be hard to have more made but I don't know when I'll get around to this.

A front strut bar would be very nice but I dont know who would make one. There was a guy that was going to make me a bunch but he's having some hard times right now so it doesn't look like he'll do it anytime soon.

As for a rear strut bar, you realllly dont need one. BMS had one on there rally car and they think its a big factor in why the car rolled over. Though there bar was pretty beefie.

For mountain roads the sway bars are by far your best bet. They dont make the biggest difference on a road course but on tighter tracks they seam to help alot more. They make the car feel a 100x better, turn in is sooo much better, and overall cornering at lower speeds is good.

Lowering springs help a bit as well.