Ladder bars..??..

You can get the same or better performance for less money with a caltrac bar type system. Then spend your money on quality DA shocks, which you’ll need anyway.

I’ve run my stick car with ladder bars, tuned two other stick cars with them, and one low 9 second flip top Austin with them.

Took me two trips to the track to junk my ladder bars and install a 4 link.

Ladder bars HATE clutches. Shocks working with ladder bars HATE clutches. They are way too short. Like 76 inches or more too short, and way too high. I’m talking about IC here. And clutches HATE that.

Dave Morgan wrote an article for some magazine sometime in the early 2000 IIRC. He learned what I already knew. He was helping on a Camaro that was going low 9’s with a 5 speed.

Data logging was just becoming affordable for the average guy. So maybe it was the late 1990’s. At any rate, I forget who they bought the data logger from but they hooked them up with a potentiometer to measure the speed at which the shock moved in rebound (extension).

The potentiometer couldn’t read the speed because the shock extended so fast the potentiometer was outside its limits.
That means the shock had no control over axle movement, and that particular shock wasn’t capable of being valved to control it.

Because of data logging, shocks are in a different universe from where they were in 2000. But the point is sticks and ladder bars don’t like each other. Calvert type bars (the Asassin bar has more adjustability than the Calvert bar) will do what a ladder bar will do for less money and less work. And you still need a quality shock. And better headers.

I can never find the emojis you use, so you got what I could find.



Edit: WTH???? It didn't post my emoji. Unreal. Let me try again.

Edit II: No bueno. Dammit jPar, you got an emoji but I can’t make it stick. I hate emojis.