When adding things like Front strut bar, C pillar bar and rear strut bar, can they be added 1 by 1 or do people normally install all 3 at the same time?

(For myself, im thinking the engine one first, as the rear, im not sure if i want to inconvenience my loading space yet.)

 

...just to piggyback off this inquirey; I noticed that there are 3 other interior type chasis brace bars.

I've seen a bar that connects inbetween the 2 rear struts in the hatch trunk.(takes up some valuable trunkspace...but I did not buy this car for any damn groceries or baby stroller either.

There is another brace bar that would be the C pillar mount near the roof from one rear seatbelt retractor hanger to another.

Then I've seen some floor mounted bracebars that go down on the floor just behind the front seats.


I guess I'll post pics and the hardcore chasis and race fans can explain the most important ones to choose and their significance.

 

Hey thanks for the info, i was worried the car would flex ackwardly if i put them in some places and not others.

 

they do in a way, when you add bars only to the back to make the rear stiffer, you are making it easier to oversteer the car or vice versa.

 

The 1st bars available way back in 2001 when the Fit was launched in Japan and the rest of the world were just the front tower and lower front struts. So heaps of people only ran one or both of them as no other bars were on the market yet back then.

 

hi guys just wanna share my cusco rear strutbar..

 

Is it better to do the engine bay bar first or just do engine and behind seats for primary balance first. Just so i can stop thinking about it day in and day out *chuckle*

 

What is the best price delivered that you can get for the C-Pillar bar??

 

about $70 @ ebay

 

Don't know if any of you have seen this yet, but here it is just incase anyone's interested.

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/fit-...it-header.html

I have these two as well as the J's Racing C -Pilar bar, lower tie bar, and the inner fender braces and I have no complaints.

*EDIT* haha sorry, I didn't mean to post that link. I meant to post one that had both front and rear J's strut bars for sale for $280 or so, which are already sold.

 

how do you like the fender braces? are they reaaly necessary? do you feel a big differance? how hard were they to install?

 

install was easy, just time consuming. I don't think the're really necesarry unless you plan on goin to the track or hit up the canyon's. turn in feels better, but not too huge of a difference from with out them. I think the rear strut bar made the biggest improvment on handling.

 

those j's bars were purchased by me i would have to say that the rear made the most difference as far as handling goes. I honestly think the front is more for show purposes than anything else cuz it just doesn't seem like its supporting all that much. iono just my opinion.