Yes,

You need the Dueler tires and a set of Edlebrock IAS shocks. That'll plant you!!!

But S rated truck tires on bouncy suspension, I have to agree with you.

Tom

 

Should I take off my sway bars when we get to H-town to help out?

 

What do you mean. Why would you take them off?

 

Sway bars hurt your drag racing times....the whole preloading the suspension stuff....you did not know that? They prolly hurt your truck even more than they do mine.

 

Huh????

I'm sorry Jimmy but i'm going need a second opinion on this one.

I only have a single anti-sway bar in the front. I can't see how that would effect acceleration.

Ok. Anybody else out there know anthing about anti-sway bars and acceleration??

Tom

 

Are you maybe talking about rear end traction bars???

I've closely examined my front anti-sway bars and they don't pre-load anything. They don't touch the suspension at all.

All they do is keep the front wheels from castering in the turns, that's all.

I was considering buying one for the back also.

tom

 

Let me do some research and give you the link....or we can always go make a thread in the suspension system, I am sure soemone there knows more than myself...I would hope so.

 

I'll leave the research up to you. let me know what you come up with. I'm curious.

Tom

 

Still looking....I know I have it in some of my thousands (literally) of car magazines at the house....I am having problems tryin to cross referance it online, I have found plenty of info on it street racing,

 

I'm going to beat you to it Jimmy.

I just sent an email to this company:

http://www.addco.net/what.shtml

asking them the question at hand. I'm waiting for a response as to whether or not anti-sway bars reduce acceleration.

Tom

 

It is not the acceleration in and of itself, it is the traction it affects....and how did you word the quistion? You should ask if having a sway bar on a vehicle in a staight drag race would in any way (besides the extra weight) hurt the performance, traction, and acceleration of the car.

 

Jimmy,

Please post this question in the other forum. The more I think of it the more I don't think one has to do with the other.

All the sway bar does is sit there while going straight. It performs no purpose.

Only when weight is transfered from one side of the car to the other does the sway bar perform it's function.

Besides, i've never heard anyone talk about removing their sway bars in any of their "modifications" lists. You would think that everyone would be dropping them out.

Ask Talley. That guys done everything. I'm positive that if dropping the sway bar was advantageous, that Talley sure has done it.

Regardless, I don't think I would want to take mine out, even if it did get me a tenth of a second, my truck would handle like crap.

In fact, I'm probably going to purchase the rear sway bar along with the Edlebrock shocks for even better cornering.

My truck is already mushy enough without making it more mushy.

Remember you commented on top speed and how it wasn't a good idea to travel at 100mph because your truck was tough to control at that speed, imagine how bad it would be if you dropped the front sway bar?

Tom

 

return email from Addco.

We don't make a front bar for the 150. The factory bar is sufficient. We are working on a rear bar that will be in production in a couple of months.

No. A sway bar will not have any effect on acceleration.

Dan Osborne/ADDCO

 

Like I said, what EXACTLY did you ask him? it will not affect acceleration persay, it does however affect traction and the weight transfer of your vehicle...you want me to be more specific?

Ever notice when you gun it or launch real hard how the vehicle launches in one direction? And how the rear axle winds up in the opposite? well, you put on traction bars to componsate for the axle wrap, correct? Well, with the body flex and the way the rear axle pushes on one side and pulls on the otehr equals out, you know the whole plane of rotation stuff? (more than I feel like getting into) Anyways, you add a sway bar to well, get rid of body sway from your lower suspension compnents...what does this do when you launch hard? Your body does not flex the same, but your rear axle still pushes and puls the same, so know the weight is not evenly distributed between both rear tires, and VOILA! you have no traction....an IRS car does not have this problem, actually a sway bar helps out a IRS car. But they have even larger problems with the whole setup, but that is not our problem now...

 

I don't know Jimmy. With my locking differential, my car launches perfectly straight.

I think this is something you'll have to really dig in hard on.

It's like the drive shaft problem I had....there were no REAL answers, only theories. This may be just like that.

Tom