Home made adjustable traction bars

Originally Posted by ashleesmach1

Outstanding Sir! Bloody Outstanding!!!

Thanks, I appreciate the compliments

Originally Posted by Ronbob

Nice work!! This is the type of thing that I am going to be doing on my 64 falcon project. With the economy being what it is, anytime I can save a few dollars and improve the performance of my car thats a win win situation. I will be printing this and saving it. Thank you.

Your welcome, if you need any help with this just let me know

Originally Posted by BigBlockRanger

Too funny!

I did this exact same thing a while back.

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That looks good too. I'm glad to see more threads like this popping up.

You did alot of the dirty work for us! I've contemplated doing this, but now I feel confident I could tackle it.

Have you considered stamping out the pieces and selling the kit as a DIY kit?

Nahh... I am just a do it yourself type of guy. For one I don't have the tools to stamp out these plates and I think I would be stepping on some copyright laws if I did sell pre-made plates. I just wanted to share the correct dimensions that I found off of the real thing, and to show people that have more time than money how to make their own set.

I think you're going to find that the radius rods you used are a little on the light side, I would use 1 1/4" O.D. x .120" wall round tubing as the loads that are placed on them are quite high. I used the lighter radius rods and broke a couple on my Falcon.