i'm looking around for some traction bars for my 06 and cant find em anywhere...anyone got some idea where i can find em?

thanks
Cody

 

Are traction bars even usefull on the 05+ stangs?

 

i was looking into traction bars because i wanna stop some of the wheel spin in 2nd i get cause its hurting my times

 

I think all you can do to improve traction on the new mustangs is replace the upper and lower control arms and the rear tires with something with some grip. I'm sure the tires will do more for you than the control arms.

 

You can't use a traction bar on our cars. Traction bars are for cars with leaf springs. These mustangs have coil springs. Traction bars aren't even an option.

What you want is new rear lower control arms (LCAs) and LCA relocating brackets. Go read up on BMR's web site: http://www.bmrfabrication.com/2005Mustang.htm

 

thanks

 

Crazy Al you are wrong. Traction bars are made for 4-link cars as well. I had Lakewood's on my 5-liter. Nobody makes them for our car yet, but sooner or later they will.

upper and lower control arms will certainly help your traction issues at launch and when shifting. The lower control arms have always been an issue on mustangs. They are made of stamped steel and flex under a load. I recommend tubular lowers. Im shopping for them myself. The upper control arms are an issue as well. They too flex under a load. You want to get adjustable uppers so that you can adjust your pinion angle and pre-load your rear suspension. Sticky tires will help, but not to the extent you want

 

so would you recomend waiting for traction bars or going the tube set up?

 

If this is true, then we are not talking about the same thing. The attached image is what I am talking about, and I assumed this is what bonedaddy was asking about.

...which just so happens to be the same thing you see if you go to Lakewood's web site and search for "traction bar". Needless to say, this particular item is useless on a non leaf-spring car.



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Yeah, that's what he meant. They used to make those same traction bars for coil spring cars as well. The attachment was different of course, they don't simply clamp onto the leaf springs like those in the pic. I had a set of them on a coil spring GTO, but can't remember exactly how they mounted (it's been a LONG time). I think they clamped onto the differential and had links that extended up to the forward control arm mounts. It was the same concept as the leaf spring version, under acceleration the bumpers would limit how much the differential could twist. I also had a set of ladder bars on another Pontiac with coil springs, those looked awesome and worked great, but they were noisy.