Day 2 parts discussion

[Nova Jed]

Guys, I would most likely use the ones I have, if they are somewhat old speedparts? I agree that it's going to be a romp around town kind of car and not an all out every weekend drag car. I was concerned about the length on these bars only because I can see a bow, in the opposite direction, in the leafspring. Heck, I have no idea how long those bars were on the car before I got it? And who knows how old the springs are?

Either way, I can understand the engineering concept of having the snubber under the spring perch.

I'm going to take the wheel off this week and take pictures so I have some idea of what brand they are. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]

You guys are the teachers on here, I am just a student. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/scholar.gif[/img]

[Salvatore]

And some of the Stock eliminator guys still run the old slapper bars with pretty good success. Benny the Prof's BB nova runs 10.50's with the old slappers so that is good enough in my book.

[bbbenny]

I run the old style of drag racing. Foot brake only. With lots of day-2 items on the car. Thats what makes it fun. We all ready ran a 1;49 60 foot time, at 129 MPH. And thats leaving the line at 1,700 RPM;s. Thanks BBBenny [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/[/img]

[Salvatore]

The Professor has spoken!!

[whitetop]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: [email protected]</div><div class="ubbcode-body">And some of the Stock eliminator guys still run the old slapper bars with pretty good success. Benny the Prof's BB nova runs 10.50's with the old slappers so that is good enough in my book. </div></div>

A guy in my hometown won his class record 5-6 years back on the IHRA circuit with a FAL orange fiberglass fan and a old Accel Dual point. Not sure if they are still on the car or not but the old stuff does work.

Those old Accel 31000 dual points were very well built and precise.

[JoeC]

Lakewood still sells the long bar and the short bar for 69 Camaro. They just warn not to use the short bar for mono leaf.
In many of the original pics (1967-1970) the Motion cars and Yenkos used the short bars.
This may have been for better ground clearance as there were still a lot of dirt roads and drive ways back then where the long bars would bottom.
The slapper bars that hit the springs are not a great design either short or long. Most broken leaf springs I have seen brake at the front eye where the long bar hits and the short bar looks like it will arc the spring.
But I have seen old school cars with long bars and short bars that still have their original springs. I have an old set of Long bars where one is mangled from a high speed bottom out.

[PxTx]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JoeC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The slapper bars that hit the springs are not a great design either short or long. Most broken leaf springs I have seen brake at the front eye where the long bar hits .... </div></div>

I've not seen this common failure. Do you have any pics?

Here is what I've seen:

Short bar:



Bent Leaf


Is this what you consider a long bar and the proper place to contact?

[whitetop]

Paul
That looks right under the spring eye to me....maybe not exactly centered but close enough.

What brand bars are they or they homemade/lengthened?

[mr.4speed]

check out this cool old mickey thompson shifter