Who makes this strut tower bar?
09-20-2010, 05:11 PM
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Who makes this strut tower bar?
I've seen versions of this on a few RX-8's now in pictures but no one ever says who makes the thing.
Any ideas?
09-21-2010, 07:38 AM
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...pls refer to pages 124-5 of Yamaguchi 's book for the design reasons for including the OE strut bar, but basically, the upper transverse member of the front suspension needed to be of sub-optimal design so the strut bar was incorperated to regain required front-end stiffness.
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removing the OE race would simply result in a sub-optimal RX-8 front suspension for your car - at least in the opinion of the original designers - not that there's anything wrong with that - it's your car after all 
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removing the OE race would simply result in a sub-optimal RX-8 front suspension for your car - at least in the opinion of the original designers - not that there's anything wrong with that - it's your car after all
09-21-2010, 08:10 AM
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http://www.motorexonline.com/strutbars.html
09-21-2010, 08:48 AM
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...pls refer to pages 124-5 of Yamaguchi 's book for the design reasons for including the OE strut bar, but basically, the upper transverse member of the front suspension needed to be of sub-optimal design so the strut bar was incorperated to regain required front-end stiffness.
So removing the OE race would simply result in a sub-optimal RX-8 front suspension for your car - at least in the opinion of the original designers - not that there's anything wrong with that - it's your car after all
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removing the OE race would simply result in a sub-optimal RX-8 front suspension for your car - at least in the opinion of the original designers - not that there's anything wrong with that - it's your car after all That depends on whether we're discussing NVH stiffness, crash impact stiffness, rough road surface stiffness, or torsional chassis stiffness.
Tested it on and off, couldn't perceive or find any difference in feel or performance for autox use.
If it was printed in a book it must be true, but often theory and reality are separated by the magnitude of practicality. I'm sure they optimized the suspension too, but that doesn't stop you or any other racer from installing a set of sub-optimal sub-optimal springs and shocks.
It ultimately depends on what the end goals for achieving optimization are.
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Last edited by TeamRX8; 09-21-2010 at 12:01 PM.
09-21-2010, 09:02 AM
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