What do ladder bars do ?

[70aarcuda]

Our 71 dart, 71 duster, and 71 demon have ladder bars and coil over shocks. Hook and goes straight

75 duster still 002/003 so springs..hooks too but is not as fast as the other 3.

Ladder bars are lighter then so springs.

 

[vitamindart]

my 72 dart went 10.6 with 002-003 SS springs and a snubber. car would have easily gone faster with that set up. just never got around to it.

 

[A56]

Leaf clamps are an extremely bad idea for a street/ strip car.

 

[SGBARRACUDA]

Ladder bar leaf spring combo isn’t that hard to do. Use these and it all works together. Thou this is more old school now days.
Allstar Performance ALL60035 Allstar Performance Leaf Spring Slider Boxes | Summit Racing

 

[MrJLR]

There's ZERO need for ladder bars on any Mopar. Ever. Or any vehicle with a rear leaf spring suspension that's properly set up.

My Barracuda came with them when I bought it... I left them on for the cool 70s look only...lol

You can kinda see them in this pic...

Jeff

 

[MrJLR]

My Barracuda came with them when I bought it... I left them on for the cool 70s look only...lol

You can kinda see them in this pic...

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Jeff

Actually, I think they are Cal Trax.....

 

[RustyRatRod]

Actually, I think they are Cal Trax.....

Cal Tracks work really well with the right spring. I think they are designed to work with their monoleafs best. They can make a car rotate the Earth if they're set up right.

 

[Scamp Rhonda]

What "ladder bars" were designed to do in theory is to lift the front of the car, acting like a long lever, which in turn plants/pushes the tire down on the pavement. A traction bar at maximum efficiency would make the car do wheel stands.
Called Ladder bars because the look like a ladder. 2 semi parallel bars with cross bracing.
Here is a link explaining the basics of each type of traction device.:
https://www.moroso.com/pub/media/pdf/UnderstandingSuspensionBasics.pdf

Exactly! They were used mainly for gassers and bracket racing. Now, in my opinion, mostly for nostalgia.

 

[mopowers]

Ladder bar leaf spring combo isn’t that hard to do. Use these and it all works together. Thou this is more old school now days.
Allstar Performance ALL60035 Allstar Performance Leaf Spring Slider Boxes | Summit Racing

Did you mean housing floaters like these?

Competition Engineering C2030 Competition Engineering Floating Housing Mounts | Summit Racing

 

[SGBARRACUDA]

That is a different way to accomplish the same thing. I used the ones in post 29.

 

[33IMP]

Did you mean housing floaters like these?

Competition Engineering C2030 Competition Engineering Floating Housing Mounts | Summit Racing

Yep, you caught us, we misspoke. I meant housing floaters, not sliders. Sliders take the place of the rear shackles.
But my car didn't have floaters either, lol.

 

[Rat Bastid]

Rather than ladder bars and pinion snubbers that aren’t adjustable you’re better off with the assassin bars. They are far more adjustable than the Calvert bars and A Much better set up. I wouldn’t use a Pinions number on my lawnmower