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Old Mar 15, 2005 | 03:20 PM
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any alternative to a STB??

ok so the Twin Turbos are finally in and my next mod is for Coil overs at all 4 corners. i plan to use the Spohn kit and i dont want a ton of chassis flew when goin hard into corners. my problem is, my turbos are mounted towards the front and above my valve covers and then to make things more complicated, my custom airbox is about the height of a Stealth ram intake if not a 1/2 inch higher. i bought a wonder bar, have all spohn suspension and even a 10 pt moly cage. what can i possibly due to substitute the need for a STB being that i cant use one?

ive seen pics of molded roll bars extending from the firewall and running along the strut towers down to the radiator support. would this help at all? theres virtually no way i can get a custom bar to cross my engine bay unless i want to run with no hood...
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 09:55 AM
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Throw up a pic man, I want to start a project like that, but need to figure out my piping. I'm also curious about the STB issue you bring up, I have a STB sitting in my garage waiting for my car. PM me with a bit more info on what setup you went with (what displacement, turbos, lines, hood, etc.).

Get a pic up anyways and maybe someone can figure something out. The rollcage extended to engine bay would be a start, but it still isn't a cross brace. I suppose you could make a diamond-type shape and have a bar from middle-ish of the firewall to each strut tower, and then a bar from each tower to the radiator support area, but that wouldn't have much hood clearance, if any, either, and I don't know where your turbos are.
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Old Mar 19, 2005 | 05:48 PM
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i need to get a new USB cable for my camera and then ill post some pics. but to give you and everyone else a good idea of what im talking about is do a search and look for pics of the BANKS twint urbo system. i have a pretty much exact replica of that set up and that is why i have no room for a STB.

now i was wondering, if i did just go out and get the front coil over kit, would i experience any more problems with handling in hard corners than i would if i were to keep stock style suspension or would the coilovers at least help out a little more even though i have no STB?
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