Torsion bars

[fastford]

one thing to consider is where the energy is stored as compared to a coil over mounted higher in the chassis , and how it would effect chassis roll.

[kiwi1955]

I will post some pics of the car. No the transmission is not mid mounted. Most cars here do that because we have to run a steel block with the #1 plug in line with the centre of the balljoints. We have the block, heads, intake etc machined to get the weight down. 54-56% rear is achievable by doing this. My chassis builder does do nice work, the car is tig welded which always looks nicer.

[dirty white boy]

petty made them work on dirt in the 60s and 70s, pavement too! worked pretty good on road coarse as well! and is some what lighter and weight has a lower cg!

[CageFaraday]

Obviously sprints use them and there is some debate in that world between torsion bars and coil-overs and I don't necessarily want to get into that debate. But I am curious if anyone has tried something like this on a late model or what people's thoughts are on why it would or would not work.

We had a Custom chassis built by Frank McClendon back in 86' that was a torsion bar car. Worked pretty good, but the owner liked canti-levers better so we went back to that. After 2015 and the Ruling DLM overlords decided to illegalize everything, they threw out torsion bars as an option because they don't know what the he!! they are doing.

[CageFaraday]

Message SPark14 on here, he did this about years ago.

SPark did a "canti-lever" car, I bought his canti-levers...