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Old 05-12-01, 03:25 PM
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How do you like your WIN strut bar? Could you tell a big difference after you put it on? What material is it made out of? Did it fit on perfect with enough clearance for the engine to move a little without it rubbing. Also I notice in your signature it says RMM intake/Custom Cold Air Intake... what did you do custom? Thanks for the input
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ok the WIn bar fits good kinda tight but fits prefect,,,, not too much of a headache to put in..I noticed a Big Difference as far as front end stiffness.. intiating and coming out of turns is to me nite and day difference.It is solid aluminum and looks damn good... as far as the intake I made out of aluminum a housing that runs from the stock plastic part of the intake that mounts near the radiator down to the lower vent in the bumper and widens and runs up.just to get more cold air ya know.. werks damn good

and now I am in the middle of making a midpipe to take out the resonator and possibly the third cat and go str8 to the muffler.. yeah I got sometime on my hands
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Brian,

There is a chance that when you take out the resonator you will hear some raspiness from your exhaust. Also there can be boominess to the quality of the sound inside the cabin. It all depends on the quality and design of the exhaust.

Good luck with your setup and let us know how it goes. Let's post an article on it with pictures...
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thanks for the heads up.... I am looking for freed up HP and some more throatier sound more like a Supra less like a motorcycle... I will post pics as soon as I can get my hands on a Digi cam or a scanner
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Cool. Im probably going to order the win strut. Its the only strut bar that I know of that fits. I ordered my cusco rear strut bar and want to finish up the front .
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let me know how that rear cusco werks out I was looking at gettin one also... who did you order it from?
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Ill keep you posted... I ordered it through Area 51
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any werd on that strut bar? for the rear? I really want one I got my sways from HKS on order as well as my HiperMax series II Coilovers and already got my front strut bar just need the rear one now to finish my suspension mods....
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