okay this may sound dumb.. but what does a strut bar do? and is that what people put in there engine bay that goes across the top??

 

yeppers...it links the strut tower assemblies

 

In cobalts those are 99.9% for show. they do nothing.


A sway bar will really help tighten up your car though. those are a good investment.

 

i got mine from mrz performance, nice and shiny

 

A common upgrade item that new Chev Cobalt owners acquire is a front strut bar (also known as strut tower bar or strut brace). A strut bar mounts between opposing strut towers and reduces the flex that these towers experience during hard cornering. Reducing the flex will keep the wheels in position. Keeping the wheels in position helps keep the tires in the desired position on the road. This will help to improve traction on the turns, increasing turn-in response. A front strut bar should help to reduce under steer and a bar in the rear should help to reduce over steer.

now some say it helps some say it don't

 

nicely put^^^

 

In Cobalts it doesn't do a damn thing because the strut towers are so close to the firewall.

 

I have one on my car. or did.

When i say it will do nothing. it will do nothing. Without going further into it than i want to now. the cobalts are not plagued with common front end sloppiness. to a point. and what we do have is not from not having a front strut brace its from the rear being ******* ridiculously loose.

 

how much do they run? i'm trying to dress my engine bay up a bit ... i dont want the stainless one from MRZ, i'd rather have one i can paint blue ...

 

^^^i got it for the looks imo, the stainless looks nice

 

o i agree completely..........and i heard that it helps the 2.2s out more than the SS cuz of the different suspension.........and the TTR rear sway bar is already on the car and that makes a huge diff

 

Nope. On Cobalts in general......they do nothing.

Maven went over this topic in great detail. On alot of cars (most cars), they actual help. But b/c our strut towers are welded to our firewalls, they're strictly just a show item.

 

*cough cough*


Brad is teh leet.

 

When i first got my strut brace, i swore up and down it did something around the turns. I pushed the car harder then ever, and it took the turns great. turns out the car just has a good suspension took the strut brace off, was exactly the same. I was just pushing the car harder to see the "results"

 

no ****......like i said that's what i heard

but ya if our strut towers are welded to the firewall......well u cant get much more solid than that

 

Your point?

I could care less that you already mentioned it. I went into greater detail, and mentioned the one person who actually deserves credit for covering this topic more so than anyone else on this forum.....that person being Maven.

Yeah, i'm in a terrible mood today.

 

Get bent out of shape somewheres else.

Oh no I might quite you again...better get ready to get upset...

OH GOD


I DID IT!


GRRRRRRRRR

 

You really are in love with yourself, aren't you

 

I thought it was hilarious.

Not really, I was showing some love to my man-wife Brad

Who is busy working on race cars

 

Cute.

I've been busying crying all day every time I see one of those abused animal commercials.

Also, I need to figure out how much I still owe on my car so I can put it up for sale.

 

Need a hug man?

No homo.

 

thanks for the info guys.

 

I need alot of things right now. A hug being one of them.

 

I am gonna go with job related or woman related for 500

 

Kinda with the job. Not at all with the women.

In a nutshell:

On facebook lately, all i've been seeing as far as status updates go.........is things like "best 4 years of my life, im gonna miss it!" or "yay, graduation in one week!". Now, i'm proud of all my friends who made it through college and will now be going on to finding high paying jobs and a life of luxury. But it made me think....

The last 4 years of my life, since I graduated in '05.......I have done NOTHING with my life. I did a year of commuity college. Then for some stupid reason, I decided immediate money was what I wanted, so I quit school and got a job at Pepsi. At the time, it was like baller cash. I still lived with my rents, bought a shiny new 2007 Cobalt SS, and life was good. I also had a girlfriend that I was dearly in love with, and things just couldn't be better.

Then, I was offered a job doing A/V installation for a company called General Communications. Sounded like a promising offer, so I took it. Well, it was a pretty badass job nonetheless, and I felt I had a future there.

Pause on the job for a moment. The love of my life, after almost 4 years of dating, out of the blue ends it with me. Lies.....and I later find out it was for another guy. Now I can honestly say this came from waaaayyyy out in left field, and NO ONE....not my friends, not her friends, not my family......saw this coming. Me and her were like two peas in a pod (I know that sounds gay). We even did the whole car modification hobby thing together, and the attraction levels between was were very evident. To this day, i'm shocked that things ended the way they did with her and I. I had actually given her a diamond promise ring about 2 months before she ended it. So that took quite a hit on me...

Ok, now back to the job. Things are going great at the job. I was making $15.50/hour, with a raise expected in the near future. Then, another straight outta left field even happens. With no forewarning, I get laid off. Just like that. Sent home before lunch.

I was unemployed for 2 months, and now I finally got a job.....making a measly $11/hour. It'll be $12.10/hour + commission in about another month, but that still sucks.

And i've had a few relationships since the one I spoke of, but one I got cheated on, and the other I called off just b/c of how big a mess I am.

So basically, i've had a shitty last 1-2 years, and i'm actually making LESS money now than when I was fresh out of high school.

And me not going to college, and instead, deciding that spending thousands of dollars on my car, was the stupidest decision i've ever made in my life.

So basically, i'm just VERY dissapointed in myself, and am just trying to figure out what to do with my life. My parents offered to let me move in with them down in SC earlier this year, but instead I was stupid and got a condo with my two best friends. Granted, I made the decision BEFORE I was laid off, so at the time, I didn't think it was a bad idea. But now, I just wish I could still take them up on that offer, move down there, sell my car, go back to school, and make something of my life. But I can't screw my two best friends like that, b/c I respect them too much to **** them over like that, b/c its not their fault I hate my life right now.

So yeah.....