Six cylinder torsion bars with big block

This thread is entertaining really brings out the drag racers vs. the corner carvers lol. Like has been mentioned building a car for drag racing is counterproductive to having a good street car. When you are drag racing you WANT the front end to lift up as much as possible at launch so the soft bars are good. But if you like driving 80 MPH on I-70 through the Rockies you don't want the front end to move at all! I have the 1" bars in my Duster with an iron 360 and I love them but when I went to the strip it was obvious having softer springs in the front would have improved my weight transfer and launch. Would I change them out? No because I like handling MUCH more!

Dusterfly: you mentioned being used to big-block GM intermediates handling like crap compared to your /6-sprung BB A-body Mopar. Truth be told GM cars had some of the worst designed suspensions of the muscle-car era and this is outlined in a recent book I bought "How to Make Your Muscle Car Handle" by Mark Savitske. It's kinda funny the section on improving GM cars is like 3x that of the Mopar section and most of it is going into detail basically saying that you can't make a GM car handle worth sh** without getting expensive aftermarket parts like spindles and A-arms. He also says outright Mopars can be made to handle very well with minor changes. The geometry on Mopars was much better (more similar to a modern car) but from the factory they were so undersprung with tiny worthless sway bars (or none at all) so they gained a reputation for being bad handlers anyway.