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What are people doing for ladder bars for B-Bodys these days. We've got a 68 427 Biscayne 500hp, M22, 12 bolt with 4.56 and tons of wheel hop.

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You might start with replacing your rear suspension bushings with something stiffer than rubber like poly urethane and see what you got.
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Default Re: B-Body Ladder Bars

I don't think I ever saw ladder bars on a big car. I believe they still make a sway bar kit and also a set/pair of solid torsion bars. Maybe Lakewood or Competition Engineering. But I would do what Sam suggessted by changing all your bushings, snubbers and what have you with the new style material they have out now. Can't think of the name of the material they use for the new suspension kits. Neopreme maybe my spelling!
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Default Re: B-Body Ladder Bars

I had a '66 L-72 4 spd car back in the late sixties - When running slicks, besides wheel hop, I was having a
terrible time tearing out trailing arms and the transmission crossmember mounts.
I made a set of ladder bars and ran them backwards to the frame ends. This set up though unorthodox
combined with air bags in the rear springs solved my problem for quite some time.
The car set up high in the air Gasser style held together for a couple years of hard street/strip launches!
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Biscayne


If you look at this video it talks about how they changed the instant center by raising the upper control arm brackets

Plus it is a relly cool car.
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Hey Dog - got a close up of your rear quarter window? Looks like you collected a few stickers at the local tracks !!!!
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Default Re: B-Body Ladder Bars

I've got Energy Suspension bushings already in the upper and lower control arms along with the panhard rod. Lakewood makes a ladder bar for coil spring cars that are 25"'s long. Part# 20463
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