http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33591


Looks like a piece of crap. Anybody buy one and find out?

 

Go with the Otto bar

http://s92599732.onlinehome.us/image.../fstb/otto.jpg

In Before Michael

 

How much $$?

 

I have one like you're looking at on ebay, and it works great: stainless steel construction, fully adjustable, easy to install, and inexpensive (not 'cheap').

Best of luck and happy motoring!

 

LOL I quit telling people about them because no one wants to pay that much for a bar when you can get the cheapos for so little.

My engine bay is prettier though...

My Nismo...er I mean Otto bar...





Just ignore the white dots on the intake. They will not be there when I am finished LOL.

 

i got a courtesy nissan bar.. the one on e-bay looks like it's 2cm thick.. omg

anyway, my courtesy nissan bar has the OEM feel that goes well with my almost totally stock looking engine bay..

the quality of the bar feels solid and it has been working well. but the mounts are kinda bad quality. (a few holes were a little displaced from the bolt pattern) I had to use a hammer to lightly knock it into the bolts. but what can i expect, the box says it's made in Taiwan. besides that, everything worked out great..

 

But the link says the bar is made out of aluminum?

 

It is aluminum. He is mistaken. A SS bar would be heavy and expensive and I dont think anyone makes a SS bar for the 3rd gen Max.

 

The ebay special work fine for what it is.... It definatly has a noticable feel in how the front end corners and handles in general... My front end was more in sync when i turn , i would definatly reccomend it !!!!

 

I got a generic one for the 00-03
I have a VE so can't use the one you posted.
it's aluminum and has the straight brackets, my only complaint / problem was that I had to remove one of the jam nuts to make it fit.
cost me $25 shipped
they do screw you on shipping a bit as the entire thing only weighs 3 lbs.

 

by SS I believe the ebay one has SS brackets

 

Sorry -- it IS aluminum, but stainless aluminum! I clearly wasn't thinking when I posted.
Since my maxima is just my toy (my primary driver is a Chrysler Town & Country which is much more practical for a middle-aged single dad with two kids), I can't afford to spend the grocery and mortgage money on top shelf aftermarket parts.
For what it is, the eBay FSTB is a great help to the handling, and bolted on in about 5 minutes with no drilling, pounding, adjusting, etc. If you're going to be driving the Paris to Dakar Rally, by all means go out and buy the expensive billet aluminum parts if you can afford them.

Fourteen-year-old Maxima: $1200
H-Rated Radials: $320
New plugs, wires: $100
eBay FSTB: $9
Absolutely creaming some kid in a riced-out Civic in the stop-light derby:
PRICELESS

 

you're the man. and you can officially call it 15 years old, as it was made in 1990

 

I meant no disrespect...also the reason I got the bar I did was not because it was billet but because it had the correct brackets for the VE or 92 up GXE. The straight up brackets are needed for those models because it hits an air conditioner piece if you get the curved bracket.

By all means if you have a pre 92 then the cheaper ebay bar will work just fine. I had a cheap bar on mine as a matter of fact. I had to move the air conditioner line and I didnt like that so I got the Otto bar and moved the bracket back. I could tell no difference in performance between the cheaper bar or the Otto bar though its just that the Otto bar fit perfectly without any adjustments needed to other parts of the car.

 

I had the ebay bar and now otto. The otto bar is much heavier and more rigid. I thought it IS stainless steel?

 

Maybe I will grab one of these then.

 

try a magnet to check it

 

do we have 80 people interested in an OTTO fstb?

 

Nope it is solid aluminum instead of hollow aluminum like the other bars.

a solid SS bar would be much heavier than the Otto bar is that is for sure.

 

Stainless aluminum? Like transparent aluminum?

Mike. How are you going to get those white spots off the manifold? Are you gonna try to polish it?

 

Yes! Exactly! Just like transparent aluminum! Phasers on 'stun', Scotty.

The eBay FSTB is polished aluminum, with black steel brackets.

 

white spoted intake crew

 

Jeff I have been looking for the picture where I partly polished my spare 5spd manifold but cant find it. I have left it outside so it is a little tarnished now or I would get a new pic.

Anyway I will either be polishing it or powder coating it...I havent decided yet.

 

Good news for the FTSB fans and Jeff92SE in particular: they've finally invented transparent aluminum! Transparent FSTB's can't be far behind!

http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPa...e02729_fs.html