STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 working windshield wiper application

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STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 working windshield wiper application

STMPO's FSTB allows all LHD NSX's to increase suspension performance dramatically by connecting the mounting points of the two front shock towers.

This is the only one piece design front strut bar that that keeps the plastic cover on the car with a working driver windshield wiper.

We were able to open up enough space in between the two struts by cnc'ing a custom center bracket found in the middle of the wiper assembly. The example of the bracket we created is shown in the pics below



You have the choice to remove the passenger wiper or keep the wiper on the car. If you remove the passenger wiper... you can remove the wiper and the steel bushing for additional weight reduction. The driver side wiper will function as originally designed from the factory.

100% tig welded 6061 aluminum construction makes this FSTB lightweight and extremely durable. The bar is then finished with a special bead blast for a brushed aluminum look.

Each FSTB kit comes with

1) Aluminum FSTB
2) Replacement windshield wiper bracket
3) CNC'ed clearance washers

The only permanent modification to the car will be a small cut on the back side of the plastic shroud shown in the pic below.



The Initial offering price of 429.95 will get it shipped to the lower 48

Call, PM, or email your order in today….

Regards

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[Ponyboy]

Re: STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 WORKING WINDSHIELD WIPER APPLICATIO

Wow, very cool strut bar. Great job!

 

[Texas91Brent]

Re: STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 WORKING WINDSHIELD WIPER APPLICATIO

It's about damn time!!!! Great product, that will finish out my bracket/braces set....Put me down for two.....Too bad you cant install all your brackets/braces and wreck a nsx to determine damage sustained. Should really help the racers and street drivers alike, here on Prime to tighten up the chassis and be safer too....

 

[StmpoRaceProducts]

Re: STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 WORKING WINDSHIELD WIPER APPLICATIO

Wow, very cool strut bar. Great job!

Thanks man... were trying dam pretty hard on every part.

Regards

 

[ekin95]

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Wow Ross great looking part. I will have to discuss that one w/ Pops.....:biggrin: I know Perry will be happy.....

 

[AdvansCPAP]

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Nice part. In order to take the front cowl trim off, do you need to take of the lower winshield trim marked in red too? I read those yellow clips break very easily. Also, out of the three braces you offer for the coupe, which would you say can be noticed the most when it comes to stiffening things up? Thanks.

 

[StmpoRaceProducts]

Re: STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 working windshield wiper applicatio

Wow Ross great looking part. I will have to discuss that one w/ Pops.....:biggrin: I know Perry will be happy.....

Thanks Tim... tell Perry he is the first owner! LMK if I can ship them together :smile:

Regards

 

[StmpoRaceProducts]

Re: STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 working windshield wiper applicatio

Nice part. In order to take the front cowl trim off, do you need to take of the lower winshield trim marked in red too? I read those yellow clips break very easily. Also, out of the three braces you offer for the coupe, which would you say can be noticed the most when it comes to stiffening things up? Thanks.

The install does require removing the windshield trim... The yellow clips do break sometimes...

I heard a rumor once that Honda actually designed the windshield trim to be removed one time in a 1-19 year period... they wanted you to have a FSTB and clean out the front cowl a bit :wink:

as far as the braces go... they all do their part... when building a cage for example.. the main goal is to tie in all suspension points.. the FSTB and RSTB do just that.

But to rule out the FCB would be hard... even Honda offered a type r bar but never an fstb.

Considering all 3 together would cost 1000-1200 depending on NA1 and NA2... you can’t buy a decent coilover set up for that price and I feel the change would be similar going from a stock shock to coilovers... and I’m referring to adding the 3 bars to a car with coilovers already.

Regards

 

[ekin95]

Re: STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 working windshield wiper applicatio

One ? and i know it is probably dumb. I take it only the drivers side wiper would work w/ this bar? Passenger side become

 

[dablackgoku1234]

Re: STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 working windshield wiper applicatio

Considering its aluminum, any estimates on the weight of the bar for the people on diet plans?

 

[enkrypt3d]

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And does it come in black? Thx!

 

[geometro]

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Is that just me or does it seem like there aren't too many threads left to bolt down the bar and shock assembly?

--
George

 

[StmpoRaceProducts]

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Is that just me or does it seem like there aren't too many threads left to bolt down the bar and shock assembly?

--
George

George... good eye... we have quite a few cars here and we took mock up picks on an NSX real quick to get the part up... In the pics... the shock nuts are under the bar... plenty of threads left on 4 different stock and coilover set-ups here in the shop.

We are working on an informational video today.

Stay posted

 

[StmpoRaceProducts]

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One ? and i know it is probably dumb. I take it only the drivers side wiper would work w/ this bar? Passenger side become

Passenger side becomes choice.

1) keep the wiper blade and system intact.. it would look 100% stock ... when you use your wipers... only the driver would funtcion

2) remove the passenger side wiper and the steel bracket/bushing that secures it. only the driver wiper will be installed and there would be no noticale "unfinished look" to car since the braket/bushing is the only viewable part and it is removed.

3) since we were able to reduce weight at the same time... we increased our probability of selling you/perry/ and TURBO2GO this part instead of just you and perry.... lol

Considering its aluminum, any estimates on the weight of the bar for the people on diet plans?

we will have figures out shortly

And does it come in black? Thx!

we can have it powdercoated black yes... around 20.00 bucks would be the cost.

Regards

 

[TXvsLV]

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sweet.... i know i want ONE!!!!!!!
LOL
thanks ross

beautiful part....as beautiful as all the others

 

[TURBO2GO]

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3) since we were able to reduce weight at the same time... we increased our probability of selling you/perry/ and TURBO2GO this part instead of just you and perry.... lol

LOL.... Perry is worried about his figure too.

I don't want to derail your thread but do you want to comment on the taitec one?

This thing is so purdy I don't wanna cover it up! How come you went with aluminum instead of chromoly like the other parts?

 

[kuni]

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Looks great. Have you tried this with a Tein RA/RE setup? The upper mounts on those stick out of the middle hole quite a bit and the hole on the FSTB looks like it might be a tight fit.

 

[StmpoRaceProducts]

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Looks great. Have you tried this with a Tein RA/RE setup? The upper mounts on those stick out of the middle hole quite a bit and the hole on the FSTB looks like it might be a tight fit.

The center bore will be larger... the picture also shows the bar in white but will have a brusheshed aluminum finish instead.

were excited about the ending product....

Regards

 

[WingZ]

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LOL.... Perry is worried about his figure too.

I don't want to derail your thread but do you want to comment on the taitec one?

This thing is so purdy I don't wanna cover it up! How come you went with aluminum instead of chromoly like the other parts?

First the part is super sweet but I was curious about this as well.

As far as losing the passenger wiper no biggie I don't sit over there anyway:biggrin:

 

[StmpoRaceProducts]

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This thing is so purdy I don't wanna cover it up! How come you went with aluminum instead of chromoly like the other parts?

We did not have 1 1/2' clearence so we went with the rectangular design. Rectagular chromoly costs a ton and its hard to get. 3/4" chromoly tubing would look funny

First the part is super sweet but I was curious about this as well.

LOL.... Perry is worried about his figure too.

I don't want to derail your thread but do you want to comment on the taitec one?

You guys are going to get me in trouble asking to comment on another part like that... maybe A.S. Motorsports will start selling STMPO products in Europe since it could help everyone understand how much we put into R&D... so here is my reverse engineering to show what we learned.

The Taitec part accomplishes the original goal of making a FSTB without modification to the car or loss of OEM functionality… If OEM functionality and zero modification are the main goal…performance is sacrificed to achieve a “better than nothing part application”. (Manufacturing costs/# of cars on the road/ # of competing products/ and marketing also play a major role producing a product)

The Taitec design is very good for “working around what is there”… but when your building a part for “performance”… performance should remain the main goal… with modification and OEM functionality the secondary goal (even if you have to fabricate an additional part to maintain OEM functionality).

For example - Comptech killed it on making SC’s for the NSX… but they made a bracket to relocate the alternator instead of “working around it”. When that didn’t completely work either… they chose to use an Integra alternator which was smaller but still a Honda part. Performance remained the goal… they could have easily raised the charger so the snout was higher.

Suspension and chassis performance also has very low tolerances for movement in order to achieve a “ridgid part”. The shock mounts of the chassis are actually multi-layered and complex. In the first three pics below… you can see many valleys and curves that the base of the FSTB will be mounted to. In the forth pic you will see the flat base of the taitec design that doesn’t account for it. This leaves gaps of threads on your studs between the FSTB mounting plate and the chassis. The last pic shows our spacer design that avoids gaps in the threads but also keeps force on the highest point of the large center ring on the chassis.



Then there is the fact that a shock receives its load up and down. On a left turn.. the passenger shock is sent the load down and the driver shock it releasing it with the load up. Having hinges instead of a one piece design changes things quite a bit… the hinge will actually pivot and release tension.

We used the side brackets/gussets to help keep this point the strongest on the FSTB… seen in this pic.



The last comment on the Taitec FSTB would probably be related to cost to manufacture… but the center brace is 34 inches and many cnc machines have the capability to produce 32” parts… to make a 34” bar would rule out most commonly used cnc’s. The brace has ears welded to both sides because of this and the concern is not strength considering the welds look good. But no welder on a jig will ever be able to match the tolerances of a cnc’ed single piece… meaning the bar will not be as straight as if the cnc machine made the entire brace.

If anyone who took the time to read this can take anything from it… it would be that we spend a lot of time testing and improving on our designs… not that we bash other manufactures parts.

Regards

 

[WingZ]

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Ross I was certain it had to be a performance reason as you just won't make a part unless it performs. From your description it seems Turbo2go should go with the pretty boy dainty Taitec instead of my cars manly STMPO:biggrin:

 

[TURBO2GO]

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Turbo2go should go with the pretty boy dainty

I'm not the one driving the pearly colored car.

Ross can you make another one of these in blue for him? Girly Perry likes it Pearly.

 

[WingZ]

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I'm not the one driving the pearly colored car.

Ross can you make another one of these in blue for him? Girly Perry likes it Pearly.

Eh better pearly than b*tchy:wink:

 

[TURBO2GO]

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3/4" chromoly tubing would look funny

Ross its under the cover. This ain't lingerie you know...

 

[StmpoRaceProducts]

Re: STMPO's NSX Front Strut Tower bar...NA1 & NA2 working windshield wiper applicatio

Ross its under the cover. This ain't lingerie you know...

Eh better pearly than b*tchy:wink:

I'm not the one driving the pearly colored car.

Ross can you make another one of these in blue for him? Girly Perry likes it Pearly.

Ross I was certain it had to be a performance reason as you just won't make a part unless it performs. From your description it seems Turbo2go should go with the pretty boy dainty Taitec instead of my cars manly STMPO:biggrin:

you two are cracking me up here... and even 3/4" chromoly is hard to find...lol

Regards