Hi all,

I've not gone mad I have a proper vRS but have a friend with a Furby vRS, he would like to tidy up the handling a little & has decided to uprate the rear antiroll bar using a Jabba sport item & the front one using AMD. To completement this he would also like a front upper strut brace, but he is having an issue finding one can anyone suggest were to find one or who makes one please

cheers

Can be bought from any SEAT dealer.

Mk4 Ibiza fitment. There's a part number on here somewhere.

Have a search under SEAT strut brace. That's the cheapest and fits perfectly.

Part numbers are on here too and there are often peeps selling second hand ones.

Stu's www.fabia-vrs.com site might have the part numbers thinking about it.....

6L0 071 710 Strut Brace

AmD sell an uprated front ARB :confused:

Not heard of this before, how much is it?

Here's the price of rear srtut brace from AMD as they told me

Eibach do a front ARB 22mm

Yes the part number, and many others, can be found on my site.

If anyone does come across numbers that would be worth including on the list please let me know and I'll add them.

Cheers Guys I knew this was the place to find out

Here's the price of rear srtut brace from AMD as they told me

Eibach do a front ARB 22mm

Thats all well and good, but the Fabia already has a front ARB, its either 19 or 21mm, so hardly worth upgrading imho.

About to say that. Think its a 20mm for the vRS. Eibach have had it out for about a year now. Also H&R do them but at only 20mm.

There is a Strut Brace going cheap in the For Sale section at the moment.

Thats all well and good, but the Fabia already has a front ARB, its either 19 or 21mm, so hardly worth upgrading imho.

I hear this a lot, but according to the technical guides section:

ARB are rated on thickness, which is expressed in either mm or inches (or fractions thereof). Watch out though as a few mm or 16th of an inch can double the stiffness of the bar. Reason is that stiffness increases as a fourth power of change in diameter ie you multiply the diameter 4 times to get the stiffness. Best to work it out in mm. eg a 22mm bar gives an end value of 234256 while a 26mm bar gives 456976 (26x26x26x26) basically nearly twice as stiff!

So the 20mm bar is (20x20x20x20 = 160,000) and the 22mm would be (22x22x22x22 = 234,256) so 74,256 difference.

Now thats just numbers to me, as I have no idea what that means in practical terms except the difference is almost 50% the original bar, which must make some difference, yes?

So surely even 2mm is worthwhile if you want extra stiffness? Or am I way off here?

So surely even 2mm is worthwhile if you want extra stiffness?

I've heard that the stiffness is more important than size :orb_hard_

So I have been told :orb_angel

Ill get my coat...