Personally like BMR PHB

 

Really? Why?

 

Because we've bent them. That's why I don't like aluminum PHB's (or LCA's for that matter). But the PHB is way too long and already prone to flex. Aluminum is just more prone to it and we bent one on an SN95 (and no it wasn't jacked up upon), and I've seen a number of others bent as well, but I can't say if in every case they weren't hit with a jack.

As for the type of PHB: I have CM bars too, and in fact one of the bars I see is the Steeda bar. Once you have poly bushings at each end, that's the weakest point, not the material. If you are building an all out race car, then sure--go CM but at that point you'd also not opt for urethane bushings, but rod-ends or roto-joints.

And CM is not automatically lighter, it's no lighter than mild steel. The only way a CM part is lighter is if they use a thinner wall tube because it's CM, which puts you back to the same strength as mild. And the difference on a PHB isn't even 1 pound in most cases. The entire PHB is only about 7 pounds in total!