Lakewood `J Bolt`slapper bars

Rory McNeil · 04-02-2017, 04:19 PM

I am putting a sreet/strip car together, and I have a pair of old Lakewood slapper bars laying around I would like to use. These have provisions for the J bolts , anybody use these in the past, and does the J bolt setup help enough to justify the cost and effort to find the J bolts and brackets (assuming Lakewood still offers them). Or should I not worry about the J bolts at all. It looks like they would help spread the load away from just the welds at the mounting plates.The car is nothing too radical, about 3800 pounds, mild 428 FE Ford and 4 speed, hope it runs 12s with mid 3 series gearing. Mainly hoping to avoid wheelhop with the 2 inch wide leaf springs. It looks like I will need to extend the bars a couple of inches to get the snubber under the front spring eye, sounds like that was a common issue with the Lakewood bars.

04-02-2017, 04:19 PM	#1
Rory McNeil VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: from Vancouver BC Canada, now in Nova Scotia Posts: 1,305 Likes: 307 Liked 1,074 Times in 294 Posts	Lakewood `J Bolt`slapper bars I am putting a sreet/strip car together, and I have a pair of old Lakewood slapper bars laying around I would like to use. These have provisions for the J bolts , anybody use these in the past, and does the J bolt setup help enough to justify the cost and effort to find the J bolts and brackets (assuming Lakewood still offers them). Or should I not worry about the J bolts at all. It looks like they would help spread the load away from just the welds at the mounting plates.The car is nothing too radical, about 3800 pounds, mild 428 FE Ford and 4 speed, hope it runs 12s with mid 3 series gearing. Mainly hoping to avoid wheelhop with the 2 inch wide leaf springs. It looks like I will need to extend the bars a couple of inches to get the snubber under the front spring eye, sounds like that was a common issue with the Lakewood bars. __________________ NHRA 6390 STK M/S 85 Mustang