Torque damperss

I have not notice any substantial wheel-hop on my tC. It is an issue but not as bad as it is made out to be on street tires. Sticky street tires is where it is going to pop up. There is only 2 engine dampners left on the market for the tC; Weapon R and Ingals. Either should work for you.

Now, there are many different strut bars on the market. Some good and some not so good. I have a Greddy and find it to be an ackward design that just does not fit right. My AEM one fit much better but no as beefy. DC Sports and TRD have decent ones. Just search around and if your not sure, as ask your specific product questions here.

Well, gotta to run. Baby is a coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I stand corrected, 3 left on the market! One thing to note, however, is that they all utilize the right front strut upper mount studs as the chassis anchor point. These stud are just barely long enough to suffice for strut bar mounts (IMO they are too short). Not only would the studs be too short for both, the mounting flanges make obstruct one another. We need to add a Knowledgebase Article on dampner/strut bar compatabilities. If obstruction is not an issue, then you can find longer studs and have them pressed into your upper strut mounts.



***Using my super human moderator powers, I went back in time an added this pic to my post.

bwood87 is right. You will not be able to mount both. You can check with ARP and see if they have longer studs, but I would use only one or the other. These are not shouldered studs, ie they are all thread. You are creating added stresses on these studs that they were not designed to handle. The mounting plates of the strut bar and the torque dampner will slip back and forth ever so slightly, slowly wearing down the thread to the core of the stud. Eventually, this will cause a stress fracture or just plain shear the stud in half if there is enough force. You might begin to experience so play in the lateral roll of the front suspension.

To answer an earlier question, "Can a torque dampner cause damage to the vehicle?"; the answer is very possible. This depends on the design and the amount of torque that your throwing at it. What I don't care for in the Ingals design is that it off-balances the powertrain. It is offset to the crank end of the motor. The torque is transmitted to the wheels on the tranny end. That means the Ingals dampner utilizes the entire powertrain assembly as a lever to prevent torque. This is not very efficient putting undue stress on the block and bolts. It is possible that the rotating assembly could be affected, most likely the bearings.

ZPI tried to think out of the box and stop wheel hop by going to the transmitter of the torsional load; the tranny. The flaw in their design was the hard point connection to the lower radiator frame rail. This frame rail was not designed to handle such loads. With enough torque, this rail could twist or break it's spot welds, thus severly weakening it. Additionally a safety factor because it is also an integral part of the frontal crash safety crumple zone.