[edpontiac91]

Originally Posted by Teds89IROC

Thanks again guys! The wonderbar I have is Spohn and after I bought it I heard about all the problems with it. Ed, the reason why I bought the bigger one is because I have 275 tires up front. Years ago I heard creaking from the area of my steering box when I would turn the wheel and one day at school I went to turn into a parking spot and the bolts holding the box to the frame broke. I was able to see part of the frame had cracked from the box twisting so my boss welded it back up and I bought a new steering box. I decided to go with the bigger wonderbar to alleviate some of the pressure put on the steering box and the one frame rail. The new wonderbar makes the stock one look like a joke.

Gotcha point. You already had a problem BEFORE you had the Wonderbar installed. My point was that if you are looking to improve the handling and relieve the pressure at that area, it is a great part to install BEFORE the problem sets in. I wonder if ANYBODY ever checked out the area around the steering box from an IROC that had on the Wonder bar to see if any cracking was starting to occur? Aside from the fact that the Spohn is thicker, have you heard of anyone that had on the STOCK bar and twisted it out of shape. For most of us(you included)I think that we drive our cars on the safe side of ultimate handling. Whatever floats your boat, if you like'em thicker, then buy the Spohn or save some bucks and put on a stock IROC bar which may very well work just as good. Just my