bambooluv

Aight guys as some of you guys might know Im building a hot-rod class car for next season. At this point of the car we are ready to mount the wheelie bars onto the car. the bottom mounts by a sub frame and the top is going to be tied into the rear cage. My question is which is a better mounting position? Higher like in figure A. Or lower in figure B? My chassis guy is saying lower is the same as higher... I had to look on the other side of the glass and say high . I'm not a chassis tech or great at physics and weight transfers, but my guess is that a higher and wider mounting position meets the weight transefer higher up than instead of lower down. thanks for the help guys.-pdang

ninesecteg

higher.

Adam F

You want the bars as high as possible and as wide. I am not a chassis expert either, but based on the research I did that way seems to be the most stable and is how we setup our car. I have not got to run the car so I cannot tell you how well it works.

bambooluv

thnx for the replys guys....Hey Adam are you guys ready for next season?-pete

Adam F

Not yet, but we will be. I have restructured our team and we are going to do our best to compete at all the NHRA events. I am really excited to get back. How is your car coming?

ninesecrx

The larger the triangle, the stronger it will be.

bambooluv

At the top of the hill finally now with this delima with the suspension issue. With the help of Rob Moore hopefully I can make it out finally. The cage is all done just need to weld out acouple locations mount the w.b, parachute, and door straps. Than its off to Loyds to complete the front chassis work should be done all and all with chassis and suspension in roughly 3 weeks. than paint and the motor gets in and its off to Bob's and Tony's.-pete

Goodluck next year man.

Adam F

I look forward to racing with you next year.

SIXTYdashONE

Damn, im in here a little late i guess, but yeah, the choice is apparent Peter, higher. Its obvious that it will distribute weight transfer better.

Gravy

we have them lower than point B on our race hatch. they go through the bumper. i think if we would have put them higher on our hatch we would have been a little more consistent.

tony1

What it comes down to is that the top bar is in compression. If you have a straight line in the arc the bars would follow then it will try to compress the top bars. You aren't going to compress chromoly!! If it's at the lower point then it will try to bend the top bars as well as compress them.

DaveF

higher






this is the lower wheelie bar mount