As title - What are the advantages / applications of either of these - which is best???

Anyone????

 

I don't know which is best, but what is sure is that the angle they are fitted at that has the most importance if they are tension struts and are the same angle as the std antiroll bar , they will induce nose dive during braking. That is why there are kits to lower the mounting points to avoid nose dive during braking. I am not sure as i never had any of them, but what i am sure about is that on my cortina i have double width mounts for the std antiroll bar, and fitted with a special type of teflon bushing which i had made by a local shop. I know that compresion or tension struts ar more rigid and direct, but i am concerned when (hope not) i hit a pavment . With the std mounts i hope the bolts will break, and with struts , i think damage to the chassis will occur. This comes to mind as i remember when i went up a pavement with my daily blue oval , its a fiesta mk3, I couldn't believe the wishbone got bent, and when it took it off , i couldn't believe it was made so flimsy, I was complaining about this with a friend because we were discussing if i had to work out something harder, but he has some more experience in demolishing cars, he said , now you can go buy a new wishbone, if it didn't bend, the chassis would have, and the fiesta's chassis is still ok.

Warren

 

Yeah i can imagine that if you hit something then it could be worse, but at the moment my car (MK2 RS2K) has an antiroll bar and anti dive kit fotted, but I think the Antiroll Bar (which is not acting as an antiroll bar anyway!) is not securing the strut properly...the wheel hits the bodywork when i reverse????

Possibly the washer on the antiroll bar trying to pul through the bush on the bottom arm?

 

well either you have some massive wheels or else your front is far from tight.

surely you have something.

warren