We have 3 bars in stock. Still time to get one before the big event.
I ran two cars last weekend with the Strano 32mm hollow bar. Both worked
extremely well, and the cars were pretty different. One was a stock STi on
Falken 615's and no camber, the other a partially built ESP car with a
similar spring setup to Joel's car (including no rear bar). Both turned
just fine for me, and the owners as long as they dodn't try do drive in 400
mph too fast (which was attempted), but would have been way too fast for
ANY setup.
The bar is working exactly as we hoped it would. Maybe I can get some of
the guys who have them to chime in wtih their thoughts.
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Sam Strano <strano@stranoparts.com>
>To: evolution-discussions@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [evolution-disc.] Strano Performance STi/WRX front swaybars
>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:58:41 -0400
>
>We are finally getting caught up on the early orders for our 32mm Hollow
>bar for the front of the STi's and WRX's. I just had truck here with 9 of
>them on board that are not spoken for. Price is $199 plus shipping. Note
>that there will be a slight price increase soon due to the cost of steel.
>
>Details about the bar:
>
>--The bar is made of 32mm hollow material using 5mm walled tubing, weight
>is 9 pounds.
>
>--Mounts to stock body mounts using supplied brackets and urethane mount
>buhsings. Slight bending of the u-brackets may be necessary on some
>cars. This is easily accomplished
>
>--Our bar does not use the Subaru OEM style endlinks, but rather an
>L-bracket the mounts to the lower control arm.
>
>Q: Why did we decide on a such a large front bar? Wouldn't that make
>understeer worse on a nose-heavy car?
>A: We chose this course of action for a number of reasons, these are the
>two largest: First is that the Subaru's have a terrible camber curve, all
>you need to do is look at a typical front shot of a car in action and note
>the positive camber on the front wheel. No matter how much static camber
>you can get in, you lose it all to body roll. That in turn makes for a
>very poor contact patch and a loss in front grip. Swaybars are much more
>effective at controlling body roll than are springs, even BIG springs. We
>felt that in order for the Subaru's to become truly fast that the best use
>of the front tires had to be made. Secondly, we found the cars tended to
>lift the inside rear tire right off the ground defeating a lot of the
>advantage of the AWD. Again, a larger front bar works to counter this by
>keeping the car more level, leaving the rear tire down on the ground more
>often. The result is a car that has no more understeer than before, and
>normally quite a bit less due to the better contact patch, as well as an
>increased ability to accelerate off of corners. There are other reasons,
>and if you'd like to talk those over, just contact me.
>
>Is the bar proven? Yes it is. Joel Fehrman has worked on this with us
>from the beginning. His car has the prototype bar on it, and has from the
>beginning of year, including the two Atlanta National events where the car
>dominated ESP and SM both. Later Tommy Pulliam won the Peru Tour by 2.1
>over Joel in 2nd with ace driver Mark Jorgensen (who gives me all I can
>handle) in 3rd.
>Atlanta Tour results:
>http://www.scca.com/_Filelibrary/File/solo-05atlanta-sun.pdf
>Peru Tour results:
>http://www.scca.com/_Filelibrary/File/solo-05atlanta-sun.pdf
>Toledo Tour results:
>http://www.scca.com/_Filelibrary/File/solo-05toledo-sun.pdf
>Atlanta Pro results: can't link them, SCCA's site won't let me. :)
>
>Joel has posted pictures here, and you can also see opinions from others
>who have gotten early versions of the bar. Please note the directions have
>been cleaned up a
>bit. http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=719115&page=4&pp=25
Sam Strano Jr.
Strano Performance Parts
Orders: 800-729-1831
Tech-line 814-849-3450
www.stranoparts.com
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