I just wanted to see if there was enough interest to run a Group Buy on some JDM parts. Specifically the Jspeed side tower bars that can be seen at www.cs-marche.com. These carry a conversion rate of about $260 a pair. And, if we can get 10+ people it would be $240 a pair... and lastly at 15+ would be $230 a pair. Just wanted to find out if there were enough people to get in on this, since we get containers from Japan roughly every 5 weeks.

EDIT: forgot to add how to read and locate the part.... Sorry. Scroll down a bit and look to the right where its blinking "NEW". Cant miss the WRB. You can also use babelfish.altavista.com to translate.

 

I have no idea what I'm looking at on that link.

 

Sorry. Scroll down a bit and look to the right where its blinking "NEW". Cant miss the WRB. You can also use babel.altavista.com to translate.

 

Moved thread to Bay Area Classifieds.

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Interesting looking pieces. A little more involved than installing strut tower bars. Cost isn't too bad.

Biggest downside - zero bling factor.

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what benefit does this actually provide?

 

Looks like it's supposed to stiffen the chassis when the suspension loads the strut towers. Whereas a strut tower brace will stiffen it laterally (strut towers bowing inward under load), these pieces are supposed to prevent chassis flexing fore and aft, I suppose. I don't know that this is really a problem with the GD chassis.

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hmmm...yeah I thought flex wasn't really an issue with our cars

 

Not sure about chassis rigidity in that area. I'd have to do more research. Maybe look for something published by Subaru engineers doing a comparison of the older vs New Age Impreza chassis. I remember reading that they increased torsional stiffness by a whopping amount (I think it was in R&T magazine) compared with the previous generation Impreza but this doesn't really tell me specifically about the strut tower area.

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Put some 7kg spring rate coilovers on

 

actually, STi makes a very similar part called an inner fender brace or something like that. i think that they come on either the new RA Spec-C's, or the S202. i don't know how much you'd notice them, but they sure look like they'd be a pain to install.

 

I'd be in for $200/pair...

 

Babelfish sux ba||$ .....here's why....


Japanese characters to translate:

"「スーパー筋金�_ん」
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Babelfish "translation" in english:

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doesnt help much....THANKS Babelfish

-Ted

 

I think it has to do with our browser settings and support for a Japanese character set. Without it, all we see are those garbage characters and not kanji.

http://www.kanjisite.com/

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