wheelie bars - style - type - preference?

Dragsinger · 07-11-2009, 12:39 PM

Soon, I will be buying a wheelie bar set and need to hear about your experience. The Anthony Jones set looks interesting but I do not see many sets of that style in use.
Please let me hear what you are running, store bought kit? Custom built?
They will be installed on a 1990 Firebird.

Tom Goldman · 07-11-2009, 05:15 PM

The AJE bars are good on a car that really needs an active wheelie bar to work , like a stick ,hi HP car. .....They are a little bulky and lend themselves to leaf spring cars that have a lot of room behind the housing. .......If you are putting wheelie bars on only for the safety aspect of keeping the wheelie from getting away from you , any spring loaded bar will do,as most Stock racers keep them set way high anyway. ........Torque arm cars like yours dont unload the tires as easily on the wheelie bars,as a Caltrack or slapper type suspension. .....S&W makes a good bar that's engineered to fit F bodies. .....Tom

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Dragsinger VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Liberty City [East Texas] Posts: 1,760 Likes: 5 Liked 99 Times in 60 Posts	wheelie bars - style - type - preference? Soon, I will be buying a wheelie bar set and need to hear about your experience. The Anthony Jones set looks interesting but I do not see many sets of that style in use. Please let me hear what you are running, store bought kit? Custom built? They will be installed on a 1990 Firebird. __________________ Larry Woodfin 471W

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Tom Goldman VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Allentown,PA Posts: 2,473 Likes: 878 Liked 857 Times in 234 Posts	Re: wheelie bars - style - type - preference? The AJE bars are good on a car that really needs an active wheelie bar to work , like a stick ,hi HP car. .....They are a little bulky and lend themselves to leaf spring cars that have a lot of room behind the housing. .......If you are putting wheelie bars on only for the safety aspect of keeping the wheelie from getting away from you , any spring loaded bar will do,as most Stock racers keep them set way high anyway. ........Torque arm cars like yours dont unload the tires as easily on the wheelie bars,as a Caltrack or slapper type suspension. .....S&W makes a good bar that's engineered to fit F bodies. .....Tom __________________ Tom Goldman 1500 SG , 1506 STK