I got my drag radials finally, set me back a good chunk of change but I know it will be worth it once I get used to them. The leaf springs I have are fairly new, the stiffer 4 leaf version. I've been putting together the parts to build traction bars for my car. Bryant built his own and they came out really nice. You can buy them for around $350 and with our cost of parts alone we are pretty close to that, not including labor. I had bought the heim joints already and was waiting on get the metal brackets cut out. Heim joints and connectors cost about $140 total. These are the brackets we had cut, cost total $85. Undid the rear bolt to get the leaf out. Started on the front part of the leaf. Unbolted the brackets. Here you see the rubber bushing, it's sticking out a little from the metal of the leaf spring. So we took a hack saw and cut it back, but leave the metal eyelet in place. Bryant sand blasted the bracket real nice and I started cutting grooves into it where the metal brackets will weld onto. The metal brackets are what you see here. We had these water jetted. Bolted them with 3/4 size bolts and sandwitched the heim between the metal plates. This is the cut off we used to make the cuts. We sandwitched 2 cutoff discs together to achieve the proper width. Came out very nice. You can see the metal brackets sit really nice into the groove and now just need to be welded. Our good buddy Boyd welded these for us. Painted them and they are ready to go. We got this larger bolt that gonna go up near the front eyelet of the leaf springs. It won't fit up there so we have to cut some off it. Here we go. Went to the metal shop, got some 120 thousands thick metal tubing, seamless and had it cut to 16 3/8" and had them welded onto the heim joints. We had a friend of Bryants, Bob, do the welding on this with a TIG. These will come in later but we had these cut by Boyd's friend on a lathe, they look very precise. I'll show the rest of the install hopefully Monday.
Looks like a CalTrac setup in the process of being home made... they work. And sounds like my spending $300 on the set wasn't too bad of a deal. Your heim joints cost half that.
255/60/15, MT et streets. I ran them once and I definitely noticed a difference but I'm still getting used to them.
