Rear end traction control

[notny41]

Thought I heard someone talk about "slapper bars" or something like that. Supposed to control wheel hop and axle windup. I've looked at some devices like that but it seems like they all require welding to the frame. The guy that was telling me about them was saying they just bolt on with no welding necessary.

Anyone know of a product such as this and where it is available from?

 

[golf4283]

slapper bars require no welding. If you want to do shelby traction bars I believe you need to weld a bracket on top of the fram rail inside the cabin. Not positive though. IMO you should go with the shelby traction bars as people can barely see them when you are on the road. I think that slapper bars look cheap and ghetto rigged myself. Not to badmouth them its just my .02

 

[notny41]

If I'm going to be able to see them, I don't think I'll even put them on then. I'd rather have it look cleaner than cheapen the look just for a little extra traction.

Thanks Golf!

P

 

[Ferf]

Go with the Shelby under-ride traction bars. However, they will need to be welded to the frame. If you are going to have them installed, might as well add some subframe connectors if you don't have them yet.

The tracion bars are tubular and are barly noticable. They are not big and bulky like slapper bars and I think that that they actually look good on the car.

later,

Chris

 

[302 coupe]

I forget the name, but theres a spring company that makes leaf spring sets with an extra half leaf in front to prevent axle hop, might want to ask around and see what you can find. I used to have the shelby underriders, they're stealthy and seemed to work well. They require a small bracket to be welded to the rear frame rail. If you want to see how they look, refer to the pic thread on here from a few days ago, in the first pic of my car I had the underriders. They're visible but they don't stick out or look out of place. They were about $100 from Mustangs Unlimited. They were original equipment on the 65-66 shelby mustangs. Be wary of the over-ride bars though, you have to cut a big hole in the floor to mount them, I don't know if you can even re-install the rear seat with them in place. They used over-rides until mid 65, then switched to underriders for the rest of 65 and 66.