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Robert Hight
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Dave
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The team feels that using a single wheel wheelie bar sometimes causes the car to launch on an angle. With a dual wheel wheelie bar, the car is more level and balanced at the launch.
Same reason I never used a single wheelie bar on my Altered.
Hope this answers your question.
Dave
Same reason I never used a single wheelie bar on my Altered.
Hope this answers your question.
Dave
Dubs
Nitro Member
They mentioned Robert's wheelie bar when broadcasting the Pomona event. When the team tested, they went back and forth a while bunch between the new wheelie bar (the one you see now) and the standard one wheel one. I think they said the car was launching too hard on one side and by having two wheels it kinda equalized things.
jackass
Nitro Member
Well I knew the answer, sorry i worded that wrong. I meant I wonder why Hight's team is the only car running it. Had a brain fart there.
it is the monkey see.. monkey do ...deal....
Hight has a few more good passes and sticks with it.. and you will see everyone jump in line for theirs.... might already be a couple by the next event.....
Billy
Just Paul
Nitro Member
It's not actually an "old" style, it's really a new style. Wheelie bars of old were ment to reduce wheelstands, keep the front end down, and that's about it. Then for a stretch in the mid-late 90's, some floppers didn't have wheelie bars at all. Then they went to a single, then an adjustable single wheel as a way to get a target wheel speed at launch. The double wheelie bar now is fully adjusable on each side it looks like, and has worked pretty well. As we were told the purpose was to keep the right rear tire from squatting more then the right.
Dale Armstrong had kind of a similar idea back in the early 90's when he ran a "training wheel" off the side of KB's car right behind the motor that stuck out a couple feet, and would roll on the ground when the chassis flexed on launch, to keep the chassis more straight and not plant that right rear so hard. If I remember right, the car that went 300 had this device on it.
Dale Armstrong had kind of a similar idea back in the early 90's when he ran a "training wheel" off the side of KB's car right behind the motor that stuck out a couple feet, and would roll on the ground when the chassis flexed on launch, to keep the chassis more straight and not plant that right rear so hard. If I remember right, the car that went 300 had this device on it.
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MM
Nitro Member
thats not exactly true.....Gramps did this on the '69 car for the same reason....when you were running on tracks that had little or no prep the cars tended to want to launch one way or the other so they used the dual wheelie bar raised to one side or the other to help it launch straight.
Just Paul
Nitro Member
Hey.. I said "about it"
I stand corrected.I thought having them launch one way or another was a pre-requisite to being a funny car back then.
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