I had recently purchase a slightly used CP racing triangular strut bar. My car is a R2 so I have the factory bar, but I just wanted something a bit different, and I thought the triangulated bar may add a bit of stiffness to the front end. Well I received it in today, and this thing looks like crap. 1st thing is that it is heavy, at least twice the stock bar. I expected a bit of weight increase though, so no huge deal. But the welds are among some of the worst Ive ever seen. The bar ends are open and unfinished , and just overall quality is extremely poor. I havent tested fitment yet to see how well it lines up. I am still planning on using it (not just going to throw money away), but its going to take me hours of welding/grinding, and refinishing to get it to where I would actually put it on my FD. Just thought I would give a heads up to anyone who is thinking of purchasing one.

 

I had one that did'nt fit....hit the rear turbo intake pipe, the goof gave me a box of washer's as a fix...lol. Makes a good engine support brace if you ever have to pull the tranny though.

 

can I steal your avatar with teh turbo? I love it

 

post a picture if you could please... i would like to see it

 

Sure no problem. Here you can see the full bar, and then the ends and "welds". You cant really tell from the picture, but the plates that bolt to your strut towers are extremely un-finished, and have jagged choppy edges.

 

Wow that looks crazy backyard fabricator workmanship.

 

Dammit thats dissapointing i wanted to get one of these, keep us posted on fitment and how you fix the problem!

 

In the 3rd and 4th picture posted, are you sure it's not just painted gum holding the bar and strut plate together ? That does look kinda half assed.

Tim

 

Jebus H. Christmas but that is an UGLY piece of ca-ca! And the quality is questionable obviously....I mean, I weld but consider myself so-so, but I could do a better job than THAT!

 

CP has been screwing first gen owners for a long time now. Do a search in the bad guy section. I'm not surprised that their parts are pieces of **** as well

 

Jesus I don't think I'd put that thing on my car period. Need to make up a little room for mismatch, sure just fill it with a cat turd of weld...

 

I'd be more then willing to buy your factory bar from you if you want sell it, just let me know

 

Your car is too nice to ruin with a POS strut brace like that. I'd stick with the stock R2 strut bar.

 

You should go with AutoExe.

 

I had one of those on my first gen. They "work", but after i got it i definately thought that it was something i could of make myself (of the same quality).

 

Just use stock. That biznitch is WAYYYYYYYY to ugly. Also if you do use it, keep the stock for resalve value cause that'll scare people away.

 

if i ever in the future get time i will be making triagulated bars/bar. and i say bar as in i'll be lucky if i can make myself one . they have a good design yet lack the skill of choosing better material and the fact that they use a MIG.