Must be my day for new topics.

I would like to add some cargo room to the car. The only place I can find is to unmount and remove the storage bin unit. It seems practical.

Does the storage bin provide body stress relief? It looks (judging by the appearance of the structure) that it was intended to hold some support for the car's body or frame.

If I do take the bins and mounts out, is their an aft-market bar I should mount in, (or just make one?) My main two concerns are ++ cargo room, and keeping stock or better handling performance.

I did see at somepoint a picture of a small stress bar that i think mounted on or near the two speaker pillars. I really liked the idea and thought it was very practical, but have lost any trace of where it went. Do any of you have an idea where or what it is I saw? It may have been a fabricated too.

 

Its just cheap fiberglass and has no structual help at all

 

You will be just fine taking the storage bins out, from what I've heard, theyre a lot of fiberglass and wood or something really stupid like that.

If you feel the need to stiffen up the rear of your car, just get a rear strut tower bar.

 

oh, and yeah, rear strut towers=the towers the speakers are on top of, thats where they all mount, a lot of people make them.

 

Thanks!!

 

there is no wood in the binds hahah, I think 5-6 bolts holding the fiberglass piece under the carpet and its off

 

I have Cusco bars in stock for the FC, PM me - nice prices ready to ship.

 

Node wrote: "oh, and yeah, rear strut towers=the towers the speakers are on top of, thats where they all mount, a lot of people make them."


Not all of them mount to where the speakers are. I know mine don't.

The speaker towers are actually a horrible place to mount the rear strut bar. They're nothing more than a thin piece of sheet tack welded to the actuall load bearing structure below them. I cut mine out because they are so pointless. (and don't like rear fill sound anyways)

Jon, What can you get front cusco bars for?

 

thats what i meant, most you have to cut a hole in the side to mount to the actual strut towers

and as for me saying wood being in them, thats juts because i remember someone taking them out and saying they were full of useless heavy crap. heh

 

jimmy, you have a pic of your speaker towers chopped off?

and someone makes a brace that goes from the strut towers, to the ground, and back to the other strut tower
and theres another one that mounts behind the seats and goes over the tranny tunnel

i think cusco may make one of them, not positive on that

 

the base model cars without bins have wood underneith the carpet.. the ones with bins have a hard black plastic. (maybe FG??) don't know.

 

http://studentweb.stcloudstate.edu/t...ump6%20015.jpg

Please excuse the horrible welds. It was new wire I was having a hell of a time getting to penetrate the base of the joint. (ended up making multiple passes which is why they're so thick and bubble looking)

I was also going to add my down riggers this weekend but now it's looking like snow in the forecast so that probably won't happen.