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Old Apr 19, 2006
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Neuspeed Upper Strut Bar

How noticeable is the handling improvement with this? Just for daily driving
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Old Apr 19, 2006
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Its noticable but its up to you to spend the $120 on it. It will cause the front to stiffen a little bit
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Well there's a sale on them for like 90 bucks. In the retail forum
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its noticable. without it, i couldn't even make a turn faster than 15mph without the car feeling like it would lose control.
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get it you'll love it
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If you consider all the little pointless bullcrap you could get for 100 bucks, this is worth it. I have it, I like it.
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I had it and sold it,I didn't notice any difference
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Good quality springs and struts aside, the Neuspeed Upper Strut bar is the best mod for our cars. Best improvment in handling per dollar spent, IMO.
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i have a DC front strut and i love em...before i got to install it i went on fast corners with no strut bars and the car was like bouncing from left to right. and when i got it and did the same...noticed a big difference!!!

our car might not be the fastest but we can improve its handling...and this is one of the answers!!!
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^^^ serious ..
Hmm .. now i'm thinking of getting a front strut ..
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you can also complete it by buying sway bars (if your car doesn't have it...or a thicker steel), rear strut bar, lower tie bar, x brace and more...now you car will drive like a go cart - hmmm as long as you have good suspension
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rsx rear sway bar is also a great suspension mod. better than upper strut bar but they both help out together.
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theres a group buy in the retail section. Ask Cubanmike he's got one and yu can use any intake with that bar!
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just get one and see, best bang for the buck and get an x-brace too
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o yah, definitely get one. and the rear sway from an RSX. you can get them for like $75 from a salvage yard.
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well i just recieved mine today and my car is at the body shop which i should pick up tomorrow ill install it tomorrow and tell you whats up. i had a tanabe one but it kept hitting the intake, but it helped a lot from bouncing during sharp corners.
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Probably the best mod ever
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Originally Posted by 7thGenerasianCivic
Probably the best mod ever
you're not serious are you? I couldn't even tell a difference really with it.I could see if you had all the other braces to compliment it,but just the sway barI have the Si-G so I don't know if it's stiffer to begin with.
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Old Apr 22, 2006
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on the ex, its a big difference. almost feels like theres something wrong with the car in stock form
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had my neuspeed bar today and install it already...had them in action too...i felt a great improvement EVEN though my car hasnt even been lowered yet. damn imagine how faster i could turn with my car lowered...i'm very impress with this mod. i took some turns before and at 50 the car would starts to skid and feel major body roll...with the neuspeed strut bar...i did 60 smoothly on the same turn.
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Originally Posted by 04hemiboy
you're not serious are you? I couldn't even tell a difference really with it.I could see if you had all the other braces to compliment it,but just the sway barI have the Si-G so I don't know if it's stiffer to begin with.
You must have not pushed the car hard enough in the corners to tell. Even in a straight line the car feels more stable over the bumps. I had to take my bar off for a week once in between suspension installs, after having had it for over a year, and when I did I could barely drive my car at usual speed, I was cruising around at 60 km/h and taking turns at 20 because like gearbox said, it did feel like something was wrong.

ps the strut bar was my first mod, so at the time I didn't have any of the other suspension/chassis stuff I have now, and just from the upper strut bar the difference in stability really is like night and day.
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Originally Posted by gearbox
on the ex, its a big difference. almost feels like theres something wrong with the car in stock form
yo gear why the ex only? are ex/dx/lx all the same?
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I got it and I love it. It looks good in the engine bay and improves high speed corning for me as well... More stable and waaaaay less body roll.... A must have....
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damn i feel so good having this strut bar! what the negative thing that anybody experience with this product.
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the neuspeed sticker gets damaged. i took it off cause i like it black anyway. looks like stock.

and i meant ex compared to si. the si has a better suspension to start with. And the dx doesn't even have sway bars so it has the worst handling.
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Originally Posted by 7thGenerasianCivic
Probably the best mod ever
I also disagree....... it's a chassis brace! not an anti-roll bar! Please stop mentioning "less roll". This is NOT the right message going out. Strut tower bars do NOT work the same as anti-roll bars.
Honestly, the Civic chassis isnt bad.... and supposedly this is for daily driving, it's not going to make much of a difference. The strut towers are already attached to the firewall so theres already enough reinforcement. But it is $100, and it's not a bad thing to have so....

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Originally Posted by gearbox
the neuspeed sticker gets damaged. i took it off cause i like it black anyway. looks like stock.

and i meant ex compared to si. the si has a better suspension to start with. And the dx doesn't even have sway bars so it has the worst handling.

hey yo gear are you sure cause my dx has front sway bars and no rear. why is that?
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Originally Posted by CuRiOuSfIsH
it's not going to make much of a difference.
What do you mean by this? Maybe you didn't. I can tell a huge difference!
As a means of comparison in stiffness....
Driving without it= seeing your grandmothers *****.
Driving with the neuspeed strut tower brace= Michael Jackson at a pokemon convetion. The only thing about this brace that you have to do to install it is to bolt the little resivoir down to the hole below it on the driverside. It takes 2 minutes to do if you work slow.
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or with auto trans dont do anything
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