Swing out door bars or not??

First off most of you guys kow what I am building. It is a BBF/Lenco combo in a 62 Galaxie. ( See Proven Build section) I really like the rigidity of a welded door bar BUT I really hate having to work over and around them also. The car will never be any faster than 8.50's and is a chromemoly cage already, so making them solid at a later date would really be no big deal. The car also has a full factory boxed frame .I am going to be going through a really hard learing curve with the clutch, tranny, and small tire combo, so I am going to be in and out of the thing for probably a good season to season and a half, maybe more maintainence over a longer period of time ........... Whats the good bad and ugly for a 8.80 to 9.20 car ? Opinions please ........ you can't hurt my feelings I have all of the cage in and welded, just missing the door bars. I also have the nice clevis style swingout bar kits for each side as well as extra tubing to do either.

Travis

That's what I use for my fat azz, I wouldn't leave home without it.

make your life easy and make them swing out. Like you said you can always weld rigid bars in later.

Guess I'm going to take the other side & say dump the swing-out door bar in favor of welding it in solid from the start. Never have liked the idea of having loose swing-out door bars & never will (no matter the design).

Just never made sense to me to spend the time/effort adding a roll bar/cage to any car trying to make it as stiff & rigid as possible, then install an important load carrying diagonal support (like a door bar) to that structure with in effect two loose/pivoting attachment points.

Just my $.00000002

richter69 wrote:I agree with Super-Dave ^^^^^^^

That was my gut feeling but I was going off a slowmaro we had with a bbc in it with swingout bars and Cal-tracs. it worked really well and is still that way. it was a 10 flat bracket car and we won a lot of super pro races with it for the couple years we ran it.

Weld the driver's and swing out the pass side. Most of the clutch guys I've seen work from the pass side anyway....

I agree on making the car rigid 100%. I am still kicking around the swing out bars for the first year just to get the car friendly then going back and adding the X braced side bars.

Thanks
Travis

go with the swing outs like you want for now! and switch when you get the combo sorted out! I am cutting the Fairlane apart bumper to bumper for a rebuild! lighter,safer and stronger! want to help?