Ladder Bar ???

here are some pics of my ladder bar setup , w/ stock frame and sheetmetal still intack

If I was you and intended on leaving the stock rear frame rails and just mini-tubing the wheel wells, I would go with ladder bars, it'll be much simpler. My buddies Falcon in the 4 sale section is a ladder bar car and he's had 1.19 60 foots on a 10.5x29.5 W's, I also have ladder bars on my back halved Galaxie but it aint runnin' yet .

Melvin,

Are you going to do the work yourself or farm it out to a chassis builder?

Give Bill a call (built Chuck's new chassis). BMR Performance 859-432-5549

Well worth the trip IMO

I am building a leaf spring car with caltracs to bracket race. I will minitub and possibly relocate the springs slightly but am sticking with this type of setup. A couple guys around here run 4.80's all day everyday on leafs and caltracs. Heck, one guy has a non-minitubbed slomaro with a big block running 4.90's on one plate kit on 29.5x10.50's.

I think everyone has their opinion about which is better. On our heads up car we have a stock suspension fox body and will hookup with whatever we throw at it and I see some guys who can't hook up with 300hp with a similar setup. If I was to change my heads up car I would go straight to the 4link.

whatbumper wrote:I am building a leaf spring car with caltracs to bracket race. I will minitub and possibly relocate the springs slightly but am sticking with this type of setup. A couple guys around here run 4.80's all day everyday on leafs and caltracs. Heck, one guy has a non-minitubbed slomaro with a big block running 4.90's on one plate kit on 29.5x10.50's.

I think everyone has their opinion about which is better. On our heads up car we have a stock suspension fox body and will hookup with whatever we throw at it and I see some guys who can't hook up with 300hp with a similar setup. If I was to change my heads up car I would go straight to the 4link.

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I love the stock suspension stuff and I have all the Cal-Trac stuff going on one of my other Galaxie's. A friend of mine has my old Firebird (looooong story ) with cal-Tracs and mono-leafs and he put a pump gas 383 in it, drives it to the track (65 miles each way) and sprays a 150 shot on Cam II and runs 9.80's with 1.27-1.29 60 foots with 295-65 M/T Drag Radials.

D. Sea wrote:Melvin,

Are you going to do the work yourself or farm it out to a chassis builder?

Give Bill a call (built Chuck's new chassis). BMR Performance 859-432-5549

Well worth the trip IMO

Thanks Damon,
Planing on doing it myself, I believe I can handle a 4 link rear clip install, but not to sure on the tin work.

bruno wrote:here are some pics of my ladder bar setup , w/ stock frame and sheetmetal still intack

Bruno nice job, good pictures, what size tires are you runing?

67460 wrote:

bruno wrote:here are some pics of my ladder bar setup , w/ stock frame and sheetmetal still intack

Bruno nice job, good pictures, what size tires are you runing?

That is some good looking work.