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yellowhorse7 wrote:

cool40 wrote:all this high dollar a/r bar shit makes me wonder what the hell folks did "before" they had them? is it a small tire thing or what?

Hey now, easy on the small-tire comments, lol!

dont take it wrong,lol,i just dont see the a/r bar on big tire cars but it's always on the small tire stuff.i've never had a small tire car so i dont know how yall get it done,but you damn sure go fast!

richter69 wrote:

cool40 wrote:all this high dollar a/r bar shit makes me wonder what the hell folks did "before" they had them? is it a small tire thing or what?

they went slower.............

you got an a/r bar?

built in by design........

richter69 wrote:built in by design........

you "can" spot a trick question!

As best I can remember, the anti-roll bars first came about in the late 80's early 90's, when the fast bracket/early Top Sportsman type cars were transitioning into Quick 8/ ProMod cars. When they were going from low 5's into the 4 sec. range (1/8th mile). They were notorious for carrying the left front wheel 6"+ off the ground all the way to the finish line (1/8th mile). When they started throwing more and more nitrous at them, it became very difficult to control the rear suspension at the launch. Someone figured out the A/R bar was a good way of doing that.

Some of the early P/S cars were somewhat secretly using anti-rolls in the early 80's a few years before the T/S & P/M cars really hit big time.

The earliest anti-roll pics I have seen in a magazine are these pics of an ancient Alston P/S build from 1982 (way back when the Alston bros was still one company). The funny thing is the magazine article & picture captions kept mistakenly calling the 4-link bars ladder bars, and calling the anti-roll bar a panhard bar.

looks like my buddys 275 car is going to have one of the DMC rear houseings pictures are at the bottom of the page.


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