Other articles may have you plenty excited about limiting your tire spin and dropping your e.t.’s. Here, we’ll show you how easy it is to bolt on a set of Competition Engineering traction bars to do just that on leaf-spring-equipped cars. The company also offers bolt-on traction bars for some coil-spring-equipped cars as well as many other good-quality, chassis-related components. The leaf-spring traction bars stop spring wrapup, limiting or eliminating wheelhop. All slapper-type traction bars convert the rotation of the differential housing into a downward force that helps plant the tires. These traction bars are also very easy to install and don’t solidly attach to the front of the spring or the chassis, so they won’t cause bind or abnormal suspension reaction during normal street driving. For the daily-driven, weekend-warrior car, bolt-on traction bars are an excellent way to gain traction without giving up driving manners.
