Traction bars

[RichSchmidt]

Grump experimented with some different stuff. The bars with the clamp on the rear half of the spring were designed to stop the car from lifting too high in the rear,and promote the front end being pulled upward. The bars that went all the way to the back and had wheels on them were designed to work as wheelie bars that stopped the rear from lifting too far while not lifting the front end. Years later,fastest street car shootout racers used wheelie bars that mounted to the chassis on a pivot and pushed down on the rear axle for the same reason. I dont know the specs on the Grump bars,but I know his shop spawned off SRD race cars,so they were probably custom modified in house. I am thinking that you could make a set and be pretty close. I had a very old set of bars that were made with big square tube instead of rectanglular,and ended at the axle and the spring eye. I think the Grump bars were made of this type of tubing(maybe 3x3)

[TheNovaMan]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichSchmidt</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The bars with the clamp on the rear half of the spring were designed to stop the car from lifting too high in the rear,and promote the front end being pulled upward.</div></div>
Thanks for the explanation - I always wondered about that!

[beater68427]

These are for my 68, I think they are Ansen Ground Grabbers from what I have seen, My car came with different ones mounted but these came with the car along with alot of other parts and I like the look better.

[Nova_Guy]

I just found these a couple days on Craigslist. I got them home and repaired some slight damage they had. I sandblasted and primed them to stop the rust from getting worse. I had two sets now; one set I'm going to put back on my car and one to hang on the wall.






These are the ones that were on my car when I bought it in 1985. I sanblasted and repainted them a couple weeks ago. I'm removng the old school ladder bars floaters I put in the car in 1991. I twisted the housing in my car at the dragstrip and I'm going back to traction bars.

[169indy]

Took about a year to get my $35.00 swap meet find Ground Grabbers, stripped of many layers of black and red paint to base metal, cleaned up, dressed very minor burrs and sent to the platers for a quick zinc DiChromate plate job and installed. No sandblasting! Only Chem cleaning. There was an indication they were plated at some time during manufacturing. Additionally When touring a local Speed shop in Seattle (Relocated in Monroe Wa) Jim Greens performance Center. There is a Neat vintage photo of the store-counter front and on the wall are ground grabbers and I asked Jim Green if he rememberd selling them and he commented they were a &quot;GOLDEN&quot; color. This also prompted me to proceed with the plating of the bars.

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After


just learning to post pictures also

The decal is a fake I had made up based on the logo in a print ad from a car mag of the period.

installed on a 68 Camaro w/ multi leafs and Mr Gasket clamps on the front also.

Have not test drove the car yet.

Jim

[Salvatore]

great job returning them back to the proper color! Its fun to do the research!

[mockingbird812]

<span style="font-size: 14pt">Here you go Al. This is the production photo you provided to me of <span style="font-style: italic">Drag Dimensions traction bars</span>.....
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<span style="font-size: 14pt">......and on my Nova (Al made these decals [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] ......</span>

[Salvatore]

Looks great still Sam. great info too.

[Hemicolt]

Your Nova is one of the best Day 2 cars ever.

[Salvatore]

that is because it is a &quot;real&quot; Day-2 car and not a replica like most are. everything original to the car from Day-2 back in the day.