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First a thanks to YugoBernie for his info and inspiration to do it right. A fellow club member and myself got the Carbing strut bars for my 90 Coupe and his 90 2+2 and I have to say they are way ahead of the others available that it is not even close, they look awesome, great finish and look and weigh nothing, I had the other kind and it sucks. The front fits so much better and does not have any problems with the hood, I couldn't close my hood with the other one. The only issue is the engine cover, although it pushes it down I left it on as it was either cut it, leave it off or live with it. Installation was a breeze only had to undo the accel cable to reroute through bar brace. Now the rears were a lot more involved, for looks we decided we did not want to go the route of cutting a big hole on top of the trim to access the strut top area but rather we wanted a clean slot as YugoBernie did to minimize open exposed areas and look much neater. This required removal of the trim which requires you to remove it all starting with the center panel since each panel has a bolt covered by an adjacent trim panel. My coupe was easy but the 2+2 required removal of the side panels under the side windows and the rear seat back to access all bolts easily, but once we were done it was all worth it when you look at the finished product, it looks almost stock like it came that way and the ride improvement is great, no more wheel hop the rear sticks great. Below are pictures of the 2+2's front and rear first followed by my front and rear installations:
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Installed front & rear strut bars - 
