Odd ladder/slapper bar things. (what are they called?)
Alrighty, I have a friend who's dad used to race 1/8 and 1/4 mile, and when he died, my friend inherited a few of his old cars. Over the years I've gotten to poke around underneath a few of them, and I noticed that a couple have what seems like an ingenious and simple rear suspension setup.
It seems like a hybrid of a ladder bar and a slapper bar, and I've never seen it anywhere else, and I can't find anything like it on the internet.
I've made a little crude drawing of it to help explain:
It basically consists of two steel members welded to the axle tubes on either side of the differential, (red) On one car they were made from heavy angle iron, and on the other they were a 2x2 square tubing. Both were a bout two feet long, and they were welded at an angle such that at rest they stay right at about one inch from a rubber pad (gray) welded/bolted to the floor of the car.
I can see how they would prevent wheel hop nicely, and I also can see that with them mounded at the center, they won't make the car unlivable like ladder bars do. Let the axle articulate properly.
My questions: Has anyone heard of these? What are they called? Has anyone used them, or anything like them? How well do they work?
Alrighty, I have a friend who's dad used to race 1/8 and 1/4 mile, and when he died, my friend inherited a few of his old cars. Over the years I've gotten to poke around underneath a few of them, and I noticed that a couple have what seems like an ingenious and simple rear suspension setup.
It seems like a hybrid of a ladder bar and a slapper bar, and I've never seen it anywhere else, and I can't find anything like it on the internet.
I've made a little crude drawing of it to help explain:
It basically consists of two steel members welded to the axle tubes on either side of the differential, (red) On one car they were made from heavy angle iron, and on the other they were a 2x2 square tubing. Both were a bout two feet long, and they were welded at an angle such that at rest they stay right at about one inch from a rubber pad (gray) welded/bolted to the floor of the car.
I can see how they would prevent wheel hop nicely, and I also can see that with them mounded at the center, they won't make the car unlivable like ladder bars do. Let the axle articulate properly.
My questions: Has anyone heard of these? What are they called? Has anyone used them, or anything like them? How well do they work?