Ok so Im searchin around on the ractive site.. and I download their catalog and I run across some suspension stuff.... now heres the kicker... its list 90-95 and complety skips 96,97, and 98 and goes to 99-00..... someone please tell me its a mistake! and that they do offer a strut bar for the 96,... and if not them.. then some one that does... PLEASE!

 

Sup bro. I got myself a RActive strut bar and when it came it didn't fit. So we returned it thinkin it was wrong and they claimed to have sent the right strut bar and it was the same one. I think on the strut bar sent, they sent a 4 hole pattern which my car was 3. The guy who installed it drilled another hole and it fits. I'm not sure if tthey even create any strut bar's that are 3 holes, but with a drill, you can probably make it fit in no time.

 

RActive sucks and in more then one way. I bought a rear strut bar for my Protege that they advertised as it would fit my car as well as MX-3, and Ford Escort. Well, guess what, no go. I sold mine to a friend who just got an MX-3, and for the rear strut bar, I will follow Bruce's idea, and dremel my way in to install it. As for the front, you can just easily buy one on Ebay for $15, and you will not regret it.