Front strut bar will make your car respond a little better (depending on the company/size); technically speaking the stiffer your front strut bar is the more responsive your car will be, but the tradeoff is that your car will have a greater tendency to understeer at the limit. If you get a really striff rear sway bar or something of that nature, you'll make the car do exactly the opposite: oversteer. In both cases stiffer doesn't necessarily mean better, although you'll certainly have a more noticeable difference the stiffer/larger the bar.
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