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With clubs, bars and ktv not goin to open anytime soon how are these places coping? Not everyone coy can change their business model More support schemes coming for this doomed industry? Close down now better and cut the losses better Look at australia, south Korea etc... Allow nightlife only covid cases rise, clusters form The other night I went to have a few beer with a friend After that walk to giant forgot to put on mask That's after goin thru safe entry, talking to the temperature scan staff She didn't remind me abt the mask also A little alcohol n forget abt it Drink drank drunk youngsters will forget abt safe distancing I agree with not opening up the clubs but have to say this industry is indeed bleeding and more businesses will close.. https://mothership.sg/2020/10/bars-clubs-karaoke-phase-3-no-reopening/ Bars, clubs, nightclubs and karaoke lounges are not expected to re-open at the start of Phase 3 as they pose a higher risk of the spread of Covid-19, Minister Lawrence Wong said at a press conference by the Covid-19 Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) on Oct. 20. Wong added that this is due to the nature of such activities entailing people socialising in close contact, often in a small enclosed space. ars, clubs, nightclubs and karaoke lounges are not expected to re-open at the start of Phase 3 as they pose a higher risk of the spread of Covid-19, Minister Lawrence Wong said at a press conference by the Covid-19 Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) on Oct. 20. Wong added that this is due to the nature of such activities entailing people socialising in close contact, often in a small enclosed space. "We've seen it in many other countries where large clusters break out in these sorts of settings. So, even at the start of Phase 3, when we enter Phase 3, we do not expect to reopen or resume these activities anytime soon." 'Prepared to consider' pilot trials Wong revealed that the government is open to pilot trials in some of these settings, with much more stringent safe management measures in place, to determine whether it is safe to proceed. When asked about the measures, Wong stated that these include testing customers before they enter such premises using a rapid test kit, and ensuring that current safety measures, such as banning people from intermingling and making sure they are physically apart, are implemented within. In addition, the "music cannot be loud". Here, Wong noted that the prevailing music level for F&B outlets that will be similarly applied to the nightclub industry. As for ensuring that such measures are complied with, Wong stated that the usage of CCTVs is currently under consideration. In adding that the matter will be discussed with the nightlife industry, he stated: "It's also for the industry itself to consider whether it's viable to proceed. Because of all these measures in place...a dance club may not sound like a dance club anymore if there is safe management and safe distancing measures for you to be separated from another person. So we'll have to have this conversation with the industry to consider what's the best way to proceed. And...we do not expect, even with the pilots for the industry to be able to resume activities like the way it used to be." Government will put in place assistance measures for the nightlife industry In acknowledging that the nightlife industry has to be prepared for "quite a long period of restrictions", Wong further stated that the government will put in place assistance measures during this period to help. Wong elaborated that the measures will enable business operators and owners to "exit, transit and pivot to new areas." Details of the assistance package will be announced separately.

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There is an argument that fixing such aftermarket braces may make your veh prone to accident as the flex in the body is required .. And the adage if it was so good the mfgr would have included as they are just steel bars and bushings

Not too sure if this is the truth or a conspiracy theory. Apparently, US had delivered fake gold bars to China in 2009 as part of the deal for some debt settlement, fast forward to 2011 and the IMF's chief was framed by the US as he knew about the truth. A long read but interesting nevertheless. It all starts to make sense now with the global economic on the brink of destruction, maybe post-phoned to 2012 after the US presidential elections. The take away message is that if its the truth, by plonking down your money on gold may not be the wisest idea. How about silver instead? A new report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Federal Security Service (FSB) says that former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged and jailed in the US for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery that all of the gold held in the United States Bullion Depository located at Fort Knox was ‘missing and/or unaccounted’ for. IMF Chief Framed A recent discovery—in October of 2009—has been suppressed by the main stream media but has been circulating among the “big money” brokers and financial kingpins and is just now being revealed to the public. It involves the gold in Fort Knox—the US Treasury gold—that is the equity of our national wealth. In short, millions (with an “m”) of gold bars are fake! US Sells Fake Gold Bars to China

So what do you guys think about the difference of Anti Roll bars... I think some of you guys who planted them on your car are singing a different song as compared previously right??? Whats your views?? Drop a line! You might want to share with those who just bought the Starlet or perhaps some who's learning more about the EP80/EP70

Anyone here knows where to get Summit Anti Roll Bars for Mazda 3???

Hi jus wondering normally where do u guys install those strip bars? some on dashboard some at door panel...any one got pics to show?

Anyone know where i could get this? I want those without needing to drill. Wanna train up, Tyvm

Guys may i know where to find Nissan Strut bars for Sylphy and cefiro (: keke!

Anyone out there knows where to get a good solid strut bar for Civic 03? any undercarriage strut bars for front and back axles also?

STOMPer Tony Yeo was driving along Pioneer Road yesterday afternoon (25 July) and was taken aback when he caught sight of these long steel bars that had fallen dangerously across the street. A few people were already at the scene helping but had difficulty shifting the barriers onto the roadside. In an email to STOMP yesterday, Tony also wrote that: "Though the long I-beams fell smack in the middle of the road, there were no injuries as far as I could tell." STOMP has contacted the police and have received an official reply. According to the police, they received a call about noon yesterday (25 July) informing them that steel bars have dropped from a trailer onto the road at the junction of Pioneer Road and Tuas Crescent.

Sturt bars have a few profile/ X-section rite, round, rectangular, oval... what are the effect of each type of x-section? which is a better type?

Hi fellow comrades, Have been thinking about adding an after market anti roll bar to sharpen the handling of my spb. any recommendations? Lamy

Important to have all the "safety" bars installed in your cars? Any opinions?

Hi, Just wondering.... Do all cars have/need anti-roll bars, for front and/or back? Don't seem to see them in some cars? Also, if I don't corner hard or at high speed, would a strut bar be of any use? Thanks!

As above, like to ask bros who frequent JB workshops & accessories shops whether Zenden brand strut bars are available in JB? Or what other lobangs for rear strut that fits a waja/gen 2/ evo 3 - 6 ? Thanks

Hello Bros. Any idea which is better? What's the diff cos price is almost the same.

Any 2 cents worth?

hi guys. May i know if there is a proper way to install Strut bars? When the mech installed my rear strut bars a few months ago, i rem that he jacked up the rear of my car, clearing the boot and then installing the strut bar. Is there a reason for jacking up the car? or it is ok to just bolt it on? Is it the same for installing a front strut bar?

hi guyz, im new to this forum.........just wanna ask if anyone knows where in our little island i can get Skunk2 bars (struts and tie-bars). my ride is an EK3. thnks in advance.

What Do Sway Bars Do??? [/size] Here's a write up taken from the VWVortex that explains sway bar function quite spendidly. All credits go to Mr. Ian ("daemon42" on VWVortex), who had done one of the nicest write-ups I have ever read about sway bars. Here it is: Normally, without a sway bar when the car corners the weight of the chassis shifts toward the outside of the turn compressing the springs on that side. The springs on the inside generally extend a little, or do nothing. Relative to the chassis itself, it appears that the outside suspension compresses and the inside doesn't. A sway bar couples the suspensions on each side to each other, *AND* relative to the chassis. If you could put the car up on a lift and actually compress the suspension on one side by hand, then a sway bar makes the compression of one side also try to compress the suspension on the other. Okay... it's still not really obvious why that's useful. So I'll say the same thing a different way. A sway bar effectively increases the spring rate on whichever side is compressed the MOST. If the sway bar were absolutely solid with no twist so there's a 100% coupling between each side, then an attempt to compress one spring actually becomes an attempt to compress both springs. It doubles the spring rate. If the bar has some twist, then it may only increase the spring rate by say 50% on whichever side is compressed the most. So you're driving down the road and you go over a bump that goes across the entire lane. The sway bar does nothing. Both sides compress normally. You go around a corner and the chassis starts to lean and compress the outside suspension and now it's as though you have a bigger spring out there, so the car remains more level. That's the good part. Here's the bad part. You hit a bump with only one side, and it behaves the same way, as though you have a stiffer spring, so you feel uneven bumps more. You feel it crossing anything diagonally as well, such as coming into or out of a parking lot or driveway curb. That's all the simple "How does a sway bar work?" part. The real tricky one is... "What does a sway bar do?" 1. We know it keeps the car more level. So what? Limiting the lean of the body is good because it means that when you take a quick set into a turn, that the body isn't still moving sideways after the tires are at their limits. Otherwise you turn in quickly, the tires grip, then the body finally finishes leaning, when it stops, the tires lose grip. This is especially noticeable in most cars in the slalom where you lean one way then the other and so forth. 2. It limits camber changes. The camber is the angle that the tire leans in or out at the top relative to the chassis of the car. The camber directly impacts the angle at which the tire cross section meets the road and thus controls lateral grip. As the suspension compresses the camber angle generally changes relative to the chassis. With a normal McPherson strut that hasn't been lowered, the camber goes from positive to more negative as the lower A arm swings out straight, and then back to positive as it swings up. That swing up into positive camber is BAD. At that point the chassis is already leaned over so the tire may be starting to roll onto its sidewall. Changing the camber even more positive is just nasty. A big sway bar will prevent the body roll in the first place, and prevent the suspension compression on the outside which causes the positive camber change relative to the chassis. 3. Transfer lateral grip from one end of the car to the other. This one is a real trick to understand, but racers exploit this EVERY time they go on the track. Their spring rates are often so high, the cars so low, and their suspension travel so little, that the whole camber and body lean problem is already a non-issue. The car doesn't lean much with 500 lb springs. They use their bars to change the balance of the car. Here are the simple rules first. A big bar on the front increases rear lateral and motive traction. A big bar on the rear increases front lateral and motive traction. The applications: If the car is understeering (pushing), decrease front bar size or increase rear bar size. This increases front lateral grip and decreases rear lateral grip giving the car a more neutral to oversteer feel. Reverse the process for too much oversteer. I mentioned motive grip. That's the neat one. Let's say your RWD car is handling okay. But every time you get into a corner hard and get on the gas the rear inside tire breaks loose and spins. You can't accelerate out of the turn. You can go around the turn quite quickly, but you can't accelerate out, and the guy with traction hooks up and passes you halfway down the next straight because he came out of the turn going 3-4mph faster. The reason you're losing the traction at the inside rear is usually because the rear bar is too big. As the rear outside suspension compresses, it's actually causing the rear inside suspension to compress as well (because the bar couples the sides... remember where we started). That decreases the weight on the rear inside tire. Decrease the size of the rear bar. That decouples the sides a bit, let's the inside tire press down on the road more, and thus not spin when you're on the gas. Here's where it gets really tricky: If decreasing the size of the rear bar doesn't help enough, the next thing you do is increase the size of the front bar. When the outside front compresses in a corner, it causes the inside front to compress and may actually lift that tire completely off the ground. The car is now sitting on 3 tires and guess where the weight that was on the inside front goes? Outside front? Some of it. The rest goes to the inside rear where we need more grip. The total weight of the car hasn't changed. It's just been redistributed, and a sway bar at one end, actually transferred weight to the other end of the car. The photo at the left shows it in action on a RWD car. See the inside front tire off the ground? That translates into more motive grip at the rear, and thus more acceleration. Believe me, that car rockets out of corners. All of this trickery applies to a FWD car too. Since the front tires share all of the motive AND most of lateral traction (because most of the weight is in front), all the things that happen with big bars at either end are even more extreme. A big front bar stabilizes the body lean more but also creates a lot more understeer, and may make the inside front tire spin madly under power in a corner. A big rear bar can't give you back much lateral grip up front, but it can give you back some motive traction. Basically letting you accelerate out of the turn, even when the front end is sliding pretty badly. Here's a big rear bar in action on a FWD car. So that's it. How they work and what they do. Scott's Comments: The write-up above, although taken from a Forum dominated by FWD cars, explains more about applying sway bars to RWD cars. In FWD cars, the key is to reduce understeer and increase motive traction. Many popular suspension kits come with huge front AND rear sway bars. The car stays level and the ride is tight. Turn-in, or the car's ability to resist understeer, is improved. But the inside front wheel will still spin while accelerating out of a turn unless you've invested big bucks into a torque-biasing differential. Leaving the front bar stock and increasing only the rear bar allows the front wheels to articulate normally. As written above, the weight that's not sitting on the suspended inside rear wheel is now being applied to the inside front wheel, which is not being unloaded by a huge front bar and is now able to extend to the ground for more traction. Make sense? http://www.stealthtdi.com/SwayBars.html

anyone knows which shop carries struct bars for conti cars?