How hard is it to instal the bar, do I have to do anything special?

 

strut bars are not hard to install at all. lift up your car and start wrenching

 

why would you have to lift the car to install a strut bar?

 

You don't have to lift the car, but it makes it a lot easier to get the bolts into the underside of the strut towers (through the wheel wells).

 

Strut bars are easy to install, but I don't see any OEM bolts on my '08 Fit Sport! So, how can it attach on then? I want to get the Tanabe Front Strut Bar.

 

the hardware comes with the bars.

 

Real simple install,the instructions might as well be in chinese tho lol
its literally a matter of 3 bolts on each side


done.

 

Oh, thank you thank you both! I really wanted to install the Tanabe bar, but I had no idea how to do it. Now I know!

 

Wow, you seem very fixated on the Tanabe strut bar

Any reason you are not considering other strut bars? T1R, Aspec and J's racing also have some pretty sweet ones.

 

i heard the bars don't really offer any more performance gains..is that true? i had one on my sentra and it made a noticeable difference.

 

I just like the Tanabe bar because it's cheap. Plus, I already have a Tanabe Medalion Touring exhaust and figured I'd complete the package.

 

Fair enough; just asking Tanabe has kind of ticked me off lately with thier customer support on the forum though.

As far as performance goes I doubt you would notice any difference between them. The J's is a bit more money, I trust the R&D behind it more than other products. Also the T1R has a bit of an advantage because it made of CF so it will save a little bit of weight.

If budget is the name of the game you can't beat Apsec, 75$ including shipping! They make a great product for good prices.
https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/spec...-shipping.html

 

I'm not sure I'd trust the Tanabe myself, they've been around for a bit, but they've always been kind of cheap. For a strut bar your best bet is solid anyways.

 

if you compare the aspec and tanabe side by side...they are made by one company and each stamp their name on it. look at the mounting plates...identical. the only difference i see is the actual tubing, one appears to have an edge (a-spec) and the other is rounded (tanabe).

this is just my opinion so don't taze me bro

oh, one more thing...they also look identical to the ones i bought for my cousin's integra a few years back. Got them on eBay 24.99 +s/h and i got all 3. Front back and lower rear. I dentical tubing as the 2 above

 

J's strut bar FTW!

 

It is important to lift up the front end of the car so that you can release the tension on the frame and suspension. When you install the strut bar and tighten it and then set the car back down it wont have any give. You want the bar to push toward the strut towers as much as possible to achieve the most difference in handling. It does make a notable difference too =)..