Strut bar tightness

[Oh Haha]

I need to reinstall my strut bar.

How tight have you got yours? Mine didn't come with instructions so I am unsure if I had it tight enough or too tight.

EDIT: I am referring to the cross bar in a two point bar.
TIA

[David]

I put mine firmly hand tight to pull in the towers before tightening the lock nuts. I figure a hair more negative camber can't hurt.

[Dixie]

Mine is in tight enough to pick up -.2 degrees of camber.

If you're not trying to influence your alignment, I'd lock it down without any compression or tension being exerted on the towers.

[304065]

For a race car, tighten down till you can't get the hood open, then back it off until you can. Wear safety glasses in case hardware breaks and goes flying.

Seriously, the point of a bar is to move the shock towers inward to hold max negative camber in the front. For a street car, remove it entirely so you can get two pairs of golf clubs up there. Actually, I had one in my '88 Carrera and I could JUST fit a pair of wooden beach chairs underneath and close the hood. As I recall it was just snug, didn't really do anything.

[ipapilot]

I set mine originally with no preload, but think I will be going the 'sqeeze the hood route' pretty soon. I can only get about 1.5 neg up front and really need more. Oh yeah, my brace is a rennline triangulated model and I routinely stuff two chairs in there