'67 Camaro Caltrac bars

[AgitatedPancake]

So while I still have an axle to get built for this weekends moonrocks trip in my jeep, I've had some other commitments to take care of along the way, including these caltrac bars I've been building . The car is a mono leaf car, has 450+ HP, and a fabbed 9" with 4.10 gears and a detroit locker. The first time he took it out after the rear end swap it twisted so hard the pinion hit the floorboard . Anyhow, I built a set of DIY caltrac bars with some ruff stuff specialties heims, some big bolts and a little torchmate work.

If you guys haven't seen how these things work, it's pretty interesting. It's a little swing shackle setup that the bar attatches to, which forces the rearward (smaller) bolt down into the leaf spring, effectively stopping axle wrap.

I had to cut a little over 1/4" width off each side of the rubber press in bushing to allow the plates to squeeze between the mounts, but I only removed rubber leaving the inner bolt sleeve. This allows the plates hinge on the inner sleeve of the bushing I left


And the other end bolts to brackets welded to the u-bolt plate






And then we installed them in the car hehe.




And they don't hang down way too low

[Jeeptech01]

Very cool man. Also probably one of the best bolt on traction aids I have EVER used. Nothing like bolting a part on and being able to dead hook in the rain.

[AgitatedPancake]

Thanks man! Yeah, the difference in the whole rear suspension after the fact was incredible. I really want to mount the gopro under there and see what the rear end does when he completely stomps on it haha

[1ABrian]

wow thats awsome work. Yeah I 2nd the go pro to see it in action.

[AgitatedPancake]

Thanks man! I definately need to get some gopro action of this car. It's frickin mean (and clean)

[SB406]

That looks like a pretty slick setup. What made him decide to go with these over traditional ladder bars or slapper bars?

[IndyZJ]

They don't bind like ladder bars do (especially with leaf springs) and are a shit ton easier to install. They don't hang down like slapper bars and tend to be more predictable because of a better instant center. This design is also tunable. The only real negative is the price compared to slappers, but they can be put together inexpensively. They work very well when done right.

[1ABrian]

Any go-pro video updates on this?