effective old school slapper bars...
 

Working on a 69 Nova with all of the old school parts. I would like to run a set of slapper bars. I really like the look of these ones here and I like the fact they are pushing on the spring eye.

Anyone know which make these are in the pic? Comments on what works well on a street/strip car? Really don't want anything post 1972.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...taCamaro-3.jpg

I WOULD SAY LAKEWOOD,COOL PICTURE!

Lakewood or Competition Engineering make em, and while they're old school, they work! The 20 yo son of my best bud won the track champion in SP and King ofthe track for a Wally last year in a car a lot like that one.
70 Camaro with my ol 408 sb running high 10's up here in Co. He kicked all of our 4-link, big tired, dragster driving butts with it...... I had a similar setup in my 63 Nova and won 2 championships with it back in the day.

Old pics are cool. Here is another. I think this is the same type bar. I was really hoping somone might remember this design. It seems like an upside-down trapazoid, rather than the popular retangular box stock.

They may be Lakewood, but I don't know when CE began making bars. I would really like to find this style bar. I've also seen ones which are a wider, more square box as opposed to the rectangular ones you see today.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...iaCamaro-2.jpg

Seems like it's a shot in the dark just to have anyone ID them, let alone find a set. Thanks for the input!

I realize they are not complicated to make. I don't want the rectangular box ones.

I would like to confirm the ones I've pictured were not home-made fab jobs and actually were produced by a known manufacturer. I suspect they were, just need to fine the right old speed catalog. If I can id what they are, it will help me locate a set.

I'm trying to keep this "historically correct" and want to use as many doccumented parts as possible. Thanks!

I appreciate the summit link. DOn't anyone take this the wrong way, but I don't want to buy a modern made slapper bar. I don't want to make my own.

I am looking to buy the old style, square or up-side-down trapazoid box/tube. I would expect to have to find them used, but since I don't know who originally made them, I was hoping there were a few old racers who might remember. If I know who made them, or maybe the model name it would help. Might even get lucky enough to find a NOS pair.

Hopefully it's not too bizarre for me to want to run low 11's or so with old school parts. Even the fuel system is old school. Anyopne remember the Autopulse "Pro-Stock" triplex fuel pumps?

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/w...7/prostock.jpg

Could only find an add for the duplex, but you get the idea.

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/w.../tandemadd.jpg

The second car has a Lakewood contingency sticker on it...

Check out the right side slapper and how much it is bowed under the torque loads on it at the time of launch !! :shock: :shock:

In 1968, while living in Anderson SC. i had a customer come to me with traction problems with a 1966 Camero conv. He had a 427" with a clutch turbo 400 running 10.5 M@H tires 4.56 gear 12 bolt had to weigh 3520 lbs. for the class. The engine was built by a guy in Fla. I don't exactly remember his name but i think it was Art Carr and we was running B/MOD production. His name was Jim Little, the car was called little by little.
Anyway i built a set of slapper bars out of 2X3 rec, tubing, very similar to what you are seeing, useing a rubber bumper on the front at the spring eye, but i did one more thing i extended the bar to about 8" behind the axle and put a sq. ubolt to limit the spring wind up, i left about 1" clearance/travel before the ubolt would start limiting the windup (if you remember in those days Chrysler had a pinion snubber) Anyway the car had such a big cam it would bog unless we came out at 5500 or above. I maintained and tuned the car for about a yr., The car would run 10.91 @ 127 mph. The national record was 10.89@126. I could never get the car to run the ET but was well over the MPH record. We won every race we went too, including the first ever national event race at Rockingham, SC. The car was deadly consistent and would pull the front end about 18" every pass. Slapper bars do work in the right situation.
This was a monoleaf car.

JMO

Zip.

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/w...man7/tbar1.jpg

This is what is on the car right now (kinda). It is an old school, "long tail" bar as I call them, but what you are saying about preventing spring wrap s a good idea.

I've got a set of these too, but neither of them touch the spring eye the way I want it to.

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/w...man7/tbar3.jpg

Someone used to make tapered spacers that went between the spring and the bar to adj the angle of the bar.They were to adj pinion angle when used on top of the spring.But You could use them under the spring to adj.the bar angle.Bill.

Lakewood still does.

Zip.

http://www.eautoworks.com/product-Lakewood-310049.htm