^ The iso thermal. It comes with a CCV (coolant control valve) that you manually open or close depending if you want to allow hot coolant to warm up your throttle body to prevent it from freezing. Mine's been closed since the day I installed it.

 

Noob question, I know what a sway bar is and its purpose but what is the difference between say bars and strut bars?

 

Sway bars are under the car front and rear and a strut bar is under the hood mounted on the struts going across the engine.

 

Difference in terms of what? Location of the parts?

 

So thats the only difference? They placement of the bars? Just that one goes on the bottom and the other goes on top of the engine but still have the same pupose?

 

In terms of location and pupose of the strut bar.

 

They both essentially have the same purpose, just different locations.

From Wiki:

A sway bar connects opposite (left/right) wheels together through short lever arms linked by a torsion spring. A sway bar increases the suspension's roll stiffness—its resistance to roll in turns.

A strut bar is designed to reduce this strut tower flex by tying two parallel strut towers together. This transmits the load of each strut tower during cornering via tension and compression of the strut bar which shares the load between both towers and reduces chassis flex.

Basically, less chassis flex = better handling

 

Torsion bars (sways) reduce body roll and keep your tires planted in a turn by transferring weight to the inner wheel. Sways (front and rear) are also used to tune understeer and oversteer conditions by adjusting the amount of body roll-resistance between the front and rear suspension.

Struts, or tower braces (front and rear), increase the stiffness of the car's upper suspension by tieing the strut towers together. This helps to keep the wheels vertically aligned with the road, increasing the width of the tire contact patch (traction) through the twisties. Conneting the wheel towers also increases body rigidity and make the car feel more solid.

The effect of upgraded sways was a tremendous improvement on my G. Flat cornering is very noticeable. The front tower brace (no rear yet) helped in making the car feel more stable in hard cornering manuvers but not nearly as dramatic as the sways.