A car's suspension is designed to give the passengers of the car a comfortable ride. This has led to enormous advances in the design of the suspension of the car. Modern cars give you a smooth ride even on roads that are not well paved. This is made possible by advances such as independent wheel suspension. Which ensures that if one wheel of a car experiences a bad part of the road it doesn't allow the whole of the car to feel the resulting bump. It absorbs a lot of the bump itself and doesn't pass on much.
However this super smooth ride comes at a price. Since the car tends to absorb deviations it becomes slow to respond when commanded. This means it is not easy to handle it very precisely in high performance situations such as racing. What is needed is to make the suspension a little stiffer so that the car responds as a unit. One car after market product that will help you stiffen the suspension and improve the handling of your car is a strut bar.
The actual detail of how a strut bar stiffens the suspension is a bit complicated. You will need to know the details of how a car suspension such as a MacPherson Strut suspension works to understand it well. In simple terms a strut bar ties two strut towers together. By connecting the two strut towers together it reduces the strut tower flex.
The amount of stiffening that is done by a strut bar needs to be controlled. You don't want the air suspension to become so stiff that you do not get a smooth ride at all. What you really want the strut bar for is to reduce the extra flex that is there in the suspension. If you get the amount of stiffening right you will get a sharper response from your car and still get a smooth ride.
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