| A car’s suspension is designed to give the | | | | after market product that will help you stiffen the |
| passengers of the car a comfortable ride. This | | | | suspension and improve the handling of your car |
| has led to enormous advances in the design of | | | | is a strut bar. |
| the suspension of the car. Modern cars give you a | | | | The actual detail of how a strut bar stiffens the |
| smooth ride even on roads that are not well | | | | suspension is a bit complicated. You will need to |
| paved. | | | | know the details of how a car suspension such as |
| This is made possible by advances such as | | | | a MacPherson Strut suspension works to |
| independent wheel suspension. Which ensures that | | | | understand it well. In simple terms a strut bar ties |
| if one wheel of a car experiences a bad part of | | | | two strut towers together. By connecting the |
| the road it doesn’t allow the whole of the car | | | | two strut towers together it reduces the strut |
| to feel the resulting bump. It absorbs a lot of the | | | | tower flex. |
| bump itself and doesn’t pass on much. | | | | The amount of stiffening that is done by a strut |
| However this super smooth ride comes at a price. | | | | bar needs to be controlled. You don’t want |
| Since the car tends to absorb deviations it | | | | the suspension to become so stiff that you do |
| becomes slow to respond when commanded. This | | | | not get a smooth ride at all. What you really want |
| means it is not easy to handle it very precisely in | | | | the strut bar for is to reduce the extra flex that |
| high performance situations such as racing. | | | | is there in the suspension. If you get the amount |
| What is needed is to make the suspension a little | | | | of stiffening right you will get a sharper response |
| stiffer so that the car responds as a unit. One car | | | | from your car and still get a smooth ride. |