Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
Triangulated bars are a no-no for any sort of reasonably modified car in SCCA Solo-II if you want to be in a normal class. But, if you want it for the supposedly uber cool JDM bling, go for it. I find it hard to believe that it's really worth the extra hundred bucks or more over the Neuspeed bar which is totally legal and is only $120 at its most expensive. I'm sure if some Japanese company came out with the same design everyone would be all over its nuts and speaking loads about how the 4-point bar is the absolute best way to go.
Oh, and SP is sort of a diagonal step up/away from STS. If you're on street tires you want to be in STS.
There's nothing JDM about Benen, and no one here has mentioned anything about wanting "bling y0" (with the possible of the admittedly overpriced Spoon pieces). If you need to keep the car in a certain auto-x class, then obviously you should select a bar that allows you to do so. However, if you'll be using the car for other forms of racing/tracking (or even on the street), ~$80 for the additional rigidity that a triangulated bar would provide would be a welcome tradeoff for many people. It's one thing to be anti-"JDM-hype", but when a product is designed well and functional, what difference does it make where it was made, even if it is Japanese?