I'll be needing a BLM for measurements to be done on the upper engine part, and i need a volunteer to do so because i don't have that car.

I'll be giving out a front strut bar for free to the person who volunteered.

Please refer to the thread for further information.

I'm the OEM manufacturer for the aluminum front strut bar, and my customers wanted the Saga BLM car model's strut bar and we are starting to manufacture it and hope that it can be done before Raya.

Oh yes, its commonly made of aluminum, but there are lots of other materials as well, common steel and stainless steel, because of the weight of steel and of course the price of it per kg compared to aluminum is more expensive, and not to mention that stainless steel is very expensive itself.

So the most commonly used material to fabricate strut bars are aluminum.


Alloy bars can't be easily bend by the movement of cars, unless you wanna bang it to the wall or something. And using non adjustable bars has its pros and cons, because non adjustable bars have welding points as well, if its non adjustable, you have to make sure that the welding points with the bracket has to be very strong, while adjustable ones can absorb most of the tention created by the movement of the car.

Yup, you're definitely right about that about adjustable is not as good as non-adjustable, but i've seen before non adjustable stabilizer bars from japan snapped from the bracket, that is because of the style of the driver themselves. Adjustable stabilizer bar does not mean that it flexes when cornering, but it just lets the joint between the aluminum bar and bracket has some breathing space instead of stretching it to the limit like the non-adjustable ones.

Believe me when i say this, when the adjustable stabilizer bars are properly installed, the holding strength of the strut towers is very significant.

Btw, adjustable strut bars are not really "adjustable" what it means is that it has two component, the stabilizer bar and the bracket which is screwed tightly to the strut tower. The only moving part is the screw which joins the stabilizer bar and the bracket, which has the margin of less than 1 mm between them.

Oh, and you're right, steel's strength is stronger than aluminum if the thickness is the same, but for 3mm hollow aluminum bar, it would take more than 5 tons of machinery strength to bend it. We've tried that. We normally use hydraulic machine to bend it.

This post has been edited by miseralim: Aug 28 2008, 05:38 PM

Its all down to personal driving style, maybe you're more like racing kind of style which requires a lot of stress being trasfered through the strut bar.

Already did, the same day i posted it i got two calls within 1 hour liao. Thanks to jceh83, very very helpful guy, hope he can benefit from the bar i gave him.