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well my bro sells spoon mugen and various other high end japanese car parts in his business and laying around was a dc5 (rsx-s) strut bar so i figure it would fit on a vic but minor modifications were nescessary we got it on and it looks pretty good.
long story short if anyone is interested i asked and he said he would sell them for 215-220 (i know its kinda up there but i guarantee barely anyone maybe nobody else has one now) because the time and effort he must put in to them to make it look right

ill post pics of mine tomorow cus my camera batteries are dead now and its dark.
mine wasnt done as nice as one for you guys would be cus i just wanted to head home and throw it on there

let me know if your interested

 
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id like to see some pics. and is this a front strut bar?

 
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yes , and ill get the pics tomorow.
i havent tried the any rear bars but he had so much fun hes like making a list of parts to try for now its mainly strut bars and sway bars n small stuff

 
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1. The spoon bar only fits with the stock airbox.
2. The Spoon bar is 3 pieces, Neuspeeds is 1 and is 1/2 the price.

 
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is there really a big difference between a 1 peice and a 3 piece bar? i have a 3 piece front and rear (cheap ebay stuff) but i mean, i notice a large difference.

 
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1 piece is a heck of a lot stiffer than 3 pieces held together by bolts.

 
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but like worth the extra money? i got my front and rear for $55 together lol. im thinking about upgrading, so is it a noticable difference when driving normally?

 
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yes a one peice has less flex.
and what exactly did you have to mod?

 
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look get an underbrace or full sway bar replacement kit.
a solid 1 peice strut bar is all you need no need to "upgrade" you will be paying for a name

 
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why not just get the actually strut bar they make for our cars??????

 
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well right now i have a 3 piece, so im wondering if i should upgrade to a 1 piece.

 
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oops, i was thinking of mugen...

 
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yea spoon doesnt make one for em2
and what he did was just cut a little chunk out and drill like 1/2 an incher from where it was already drilled for the bolt...(nothing ****in with the welds tho)
as for the whole 1 piece three piece argument... im not sure exactly why spoon made it a three piece but they did but i like spoon sports so we decided to do this
and as for ebay stuff it probably works good but if you did get nicer brands it would be built alot better and youd feel more of a difference although i agree with the other guy that it may not be worth the money to upgrade both as opposed to sway bars or sumthin

 
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and boilermaker... im just curious as to how you would know that spoons strut bar only only fits with stock intake if they dont make one for our car? (em2)

 
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out of my knowledge, wouldnt messing around with strut bars or whatever for that matter of fact that has to do with suspension (stiffer in this instance) mess with the structural integrity of the object.
what i'm trying to say is, wont "modifying" a strut bar to fit a car that its not supposed to weaken the structure? because you're basically taking material out of the bar. get it?

 
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i dont know if mines are real spoons or not...i probly got ripped off, but i got them from hondawerx.com and they fit perfectly and cost around $200 shipped or so a piece...that was a few months ago. i had to get rid of my cai intake though...

 
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i dont think it would weaken the structural integrity. im not an engineer so i cant know for sure neither can anyone on this forum as far as i know but the piece we drilled through was solid aluminum and wasnt far off from where the original whole was. theres still plenty of material left before the welds and the bar in my opinion isnt getting enough stress in the right points to fail becaus of the modifications

 
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clearly everyobody hear is skeptical and very opinionative about strut bars so rather than starting one of those anoying threads were everyone argues and bitches i will say this
forget the whole thing cus i dont feel like dealing with anything about people thinking im bullshitting or w/e so just get it off ebay and buy me a nice dinner with what ya save okay

 
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lol, hey now im still waiting for pics before i pass judgement.

 
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ill try to get em tommorow

i think i spelled tommorow wrong... oh well its late

 
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Grey already has spoon front strut bar on his car.

 
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I have the Injen SRI so any strut bar works with my setup.

I wanna see pics of your Mugen Strut.

 
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Go to HondaWerx it's cheeper

 
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I`m not too sure what you drilled to get it to fit. But I have both front and back Spoon strut bars and theres nothing wrong with the fit. It bolted right up no worries at all. Can`t imagine why there would be a difference from each bar that come from the factory?
As for only fitting with a stk airbox, this is kinda true. The gap between the airbox and strut bar leaves like no room to do anything, without going custom that is.

 
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boilermake knows that they don't make one for the em2 because the only strut bars currently that are made for em2's that will fit a CAI are DC sports (3peice) and neuspeed (1 peice). all the generic brands or like the spoon one that u modified fit but then u can't put a CAI on because the way our throttle body's sit.

 
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well i didnt know that they made one for em2's ... i searched on yahoo
nevamind the whole thread if they do make them for em2's

 
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^^^ yea, good point!!!