i8acobra

Unless he's making well over 400whp, he shouldn't spin (which is what causes wheel hop) 225/50-15 DR's aired down to 20 psi. Most people make the mistake of buying DR's and running them at street pressure on the track.

warp21

As a matter of fact they were at 20psi. Still hopped like a beast.

tanc

Not quite. I don't think you've been in a FWD car with more then 200whp have you? Shit my 95hp accent hops.

Juanra

I don't thinks there are any traction bars in the market for X3, but you can make them like the one for a RD but smaller...

I use RD struts and coil springs for the back, (also have RD rear brakes) and it gave me like a 1.5" higher clearince from the ground.

I think you can also swap the front struts but it my be to high for the front.

warp21

The APE instructions for the RD traction bars were great at explaining the pros and cons on where to locate the control arm side mount however I still have one question. Should the front mount align with the control arm pivot center-line (I.E. move on the same axis) or does it matter? From the various pictures of other traction bars that I've seen this would seem the case. I have one side of mine tacked up and before I weld it home I'd like to find out more about this.

Juanra

I few months ago I found this:

99mini

heres some pics of traction bars on an x3



http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/du...raction%20bars/

the OEM tow plates at the front of the accent were removed and the front of the traction bars uses the same bolts & bolt holes.

warp21

Well that kind of blows my geometric theory out of the water. Your bars a definitely farther in than I would expect. How well do they work?

99mini

i'm not sure they made much difference.

i was experiencing really bad wheel hop. but it turns out my tiburon tranny came from a wrecker, where the car was in a front end accident. apparently if a tiburon is in a front end accident, its common for the mount brackets on the bottom of the aluminum tranny case to snap. (maybe common to all FWD cars?) mine were welded back together by the wrecker and then the tranny was installed in my beta swap. i didnt know but the welds broke when the car went turbo. so the wheel hop was caused by the broken welds. they were rewelded at the same time the traction bars were installed. not sure, but my guess is the traction bars didnt add much once the tranny mounts were rewelded stronger.

warp21

Yeah that would make sense. I'm also going to make solid mounts for the front and rear transmission. I'm hoping this will help also.