Rear Lower Strut Bars
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Rear Lower Strut Bars
What rear lower bar is on your car and how do you like it? Im lookin to get a DC one cuz they are pretty strong and they look SICK from behind, feedback is appreciated 
Now I'm confused... I thought the lower control arms, the rear tie bar, and the sway bars were all different components?
I have aftermarket sway bars on my car so I KNOW what those are. But Blahman2 is talking about control arms?? And I thought the tie bars were for people with sway bars..
I have aftermarket sway bars on my car so I KNOW what those are. But Blahman2 is talking about control arms?? And I thought the tie bars were for people with sway bars..
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Tie bars = chassis reinforcement
sway bars = antiroll
He is talking about a rear under TIE bar. A strut bar goes between the struts. All strut bars are tie bars, but not all tie bars are strut bars. He is talking about the bar that goes between the control arm bolts. IT will do nothing for your car unless you have a large sway bar, and even then it is doubtful that you will break this chassis, but again no one has pushed it yet. DC bars do ****.
sway bars = antiroll
He is talking about a rear under TIE bar. A strut bar goes between the struts. All strut bars are tie bars, but not all tie bars are strut bars. He is talking about the bar that goes between the control arm bolts. IT will do nothing for your car unless you have a large sway bar, and even then it is doubtful that you will break this chassis, but again no one has pushed it yet. DC bars do ****.
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Rep Power: 311 I have a DC tie bar, and if installed correctly it should help. You have to make sure that its as short as possible before bolting it down since one end pivots. However, had I not gotten it for 40 bucks I would of went with a different bar.
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Originally Posted by Blahman2
tie bar, arm bar, control arm bar, rear lower arm bar, rear lower strut bar, all the same thing.
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Originally Posted by Blahman2
ok then, explain.
Strut bar
Lower tie bar
control arm
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look on anysite... pretty much any site, a lower tie bar is also and/or placed under the same cat. as strut bars, and often called REAR LOWER strut bar.
Originally Posted by robbclark1
I just did in the post before. Strut bars go between the strut housings as is the case with the front strut bar on our car. Tie bars just tie any two points of chassis together. All strut bars are tie bars but not all tie bars are strut bars. There does not exist a REAR LOWER strut bar. It is simply a tie bar. Control arms on the other hand attach to the wheel and go up and down with the wheel.
Strut bar
Lower tie bar
control arm
Strut bar
Lower tie bar
control arm
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Originally Posted by Blahman2
look on anysite... pretty much any site, a lower tie bar is also and/or placed under the same cat. as strut bars, and often called REAR LOWER strut bar.
Originally Posted by robbclark1
Tie bars = chassis reinforcement
sway bars = antiroll
He is talking about a rear under TIE bar. A strut bar goes between the struts. All strut bars are tie bars, but not all tie bars are strut bars. He is talking about the bar that goes between the control arm bolts. IT will do nothing for your car unless you have a large sway bar, and even then it is doubtful that you will break this chassis, but again no one has pushed it yet. DC bars do ****.
sway bars = antiroll
He is talking about a rear under TIE bar. A strut bar goes between the struts. All strut bars are tie bars, but not all tie bars are strut bars. He is talking about the bar that goes between the control arm bolts. IT will do nothing for your car unless you have a large sway bar, and even then it is doubtful that you will break this chassis, but again no one has pushed it yet. DC bars do ****.
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