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Wheelie bars
wideopen231:
The old saying"In the air for show,on the ground for dough".In the air 3 or 4" is fine if your heading straight.
masracingtd1167:
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--- Quote from: masracingtd1167 on January 31, 2016, 07:07:32 AM ---When I ran my short wheel base car in the 70's it needed a bar then and you should have one today . I bent plenty of stuff with that old car and chased a few photographers into the grass as well !
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The wheelie bars in the bottom pic weren't effective?
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for that time that set of bars worked very well and I think for what you are doing something like that would work for you .
George:
The bar doing it's job a few years ago with the injected setup.
retroboy:
This what I used many many years ago. A pair of skate board wheels on cut down leaf springs with gas struts from a station wagon tail gate. Clutch auto and it used to pull the front wheels into second.
janjon:
"Long, stiff and low is best" . That's what she said. Well, two thirds of that, anyway... 3 or 4" is fine? Well she never said that...
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