Strut Bar

[glenjayz]

Bukod sa moproma tignan ang engine bay
ano pang function ng strut bar? ;D

[franzis]

It helps to keep your car stable when you’re turning.

Stabilizer bars are part of a car's suspension system. They are sometimes also called anti-sway bars or anti-roll bars. Their purpose in life is to try to keep the car's body from "rolling" in a sharp turn.

Think about what happens to a car in a sharp turn. If you are inside the car, you know that your body gets pulled toward the outside of the turn. The same thing is happening to all the parts of the car. So the part of the car on the outside of the turn gets pushed down toward the road and the part of the car on the inside of the turn rises up. In other words, the body of the car "rolls" 10 or 20 or 30 degrees toward the outside of the turn. If you take a turn fast enough, the tires on the inside of the turn actually rise off the road and the car flips over.

Roll is bad. It tends to put more weight on the outside tires and less weigh on the inside tires, reducing traction. It also messes up steering. What you would like is for the body of the car to remain flat through a turn so that the weight stays distributed evenly on all four tires.

A stabilizer bar tries to keep the car's body flat by moving force from one side of the body to another. To picture how a stabilizer bar works, imagine a metal rod that is an inch or two (2 to 5 cm) in diameter. If your front tires are 5 feet (1.6 meters) apart, make the rod about 4 feet long. Attach the rod to the frame of the car in front of the front tires, but attach it with bushings in such a way that it can rotate. Now attach arms from the rod to the front suspension member on both sides.

When you go into a turn now, the front suspension member of the outside of the turn gets pushed upward. The arm of the sway bar gets pushed upward, and this applies torsion to the rod. The torsion them moves the arm at the other end of the rod, and this causes the suspension on the other side of the car to compress as well. The car's body tends to stay flat in the turn.

If you don't have a stabilizer bar, you tend to have a lot of trouble with body roll in a turn. If you have too much stabilizer bar, you tend to lose independence between the suspension members on both sides of the car. When one wheel hits a bump, the stabilizer bar transmits the bump to the other side of the car as well, which is not what you want. The ideal is to find a setting that reduces body roll but does not hurt the independence of the tires.

[glenjayz]

Wow! very informative
Thanks, Marlon (tama ba? iIs that you? hehehe)

[franzis]

yeah. It's me. Nyahaha!

[toreto]

ok ang strut bar!
ganda tignan sa engine bay + the purpose.
you cant go wrong with it.
ako nga generic lang lagay ko sa oto ko.

[glenjayz]

mga magkano kaya yun?

[toreto]

depende yan kung 2 pt. or 4 pt. strut bar.
yung sakin for Vios 2 pt. cheap lang 800 ko lang nakuha kasi ako mismo nagkabit.
tanong mo pare si Jerald...malamang meron sila nyan.

[glenjayz]

ok. Thanks

[franzis]

Meron sila Jerald yun 2 point strut bar worth 1k (yun silver colored). Try mo na lang humingi ng discount.
And if you want a 3 point sturt bar, pwede ka naman niya siguro i-order.

[glenjayz]

anu ba yung 2 point at 3 point na yun?
naguguluhan ako eh
hehehe
anu ba yung difference?
Pang EG sana

[franzis]

I’m no expert but here's a brief explanation until someone can better explain it.

3pt strut bar provide better stability than 2pt strut bar. 3pt strut bars are connected to the car’s body (firewall) unlike the 2pt strut bar which is only connected to the 2 strut tower.

[glenjayz]

Ok thanks sa infos...
budget na lang problema ko
hehehe

[franzis]

Sure. No Prob. We're here to help.

[glenjayz]

pwede pautang? hahaha

[Flyboy]

btw just to add up,meron din upper and lower struts..