[2hot6ft2]

Thanks manxman for the write up. I have been debating on the front strut bar for a while now. It just doesn't make sense to me to connect them to the strut housings instead of the strut studs like you said.

As for a solid verses hollow tube goes, the hollow tube is stronger assuming the same metal is used for both and the same quantity.

If you take a straight 6' piece of 1/2 metal tubing and a straight 6' metal rod of the same weight and material and support the ends of each then add equal hanging weights to the middle of each the solid rod will bend with considerably less weight than will take to bend the tubing.

So in that respect the tanabe should have more tensile strength. Is it worth another $25, I don't know.

Guess I'll wait until someone redesigns it or make my own.