Why has no one built a traction bar for our car? We obviously need it. Comptech gave us 40-50 more whp via a s/c but no way to put it to the ground. You guys are always talking about 0-60, and 1/4 's this is the one product that would do the most benefit, minus slicks. I just find it strange that we have s/c, turbo mods, fuel management, all which increase our power. Yet the car has problems getting that power to the ground in stock form. Sorry for the rant guys....Just my thoughts on the matter.

 

traction bars are designed to prevent axle wrap.

the typical ingredients for axle wrap are a live axle, leaf springs, and lots of torque.

since the cl-s has none of these things, traction bars aren't likely to help much...

 

There are traction bars for FWD that get rid of wheel hop. Not one for the CL though.

 

I'll be installing these on my TL this weekend. Gotta keep that front end down.

 

One project at a time, but this is on the agenda.

 

traction bars?


or radius arms?

 

Yea, I’ll buy a set of those.
I keep popping wheelies when I start out too aggressively in REVERSE !!!

 

There are Traction Bars or rather torque arms, etc. for FWD applications. It is meant control wheel hop:

Here is one for the GTP:

Torque Arm

 

Thread resurection time!

Did anyone ever get around to making these? My teggy friends were telling me about traction bars meant to prevent wheel hop and I was curious to see if there were every any made for the CL/TL. This is the only thread I found and didn't find anything on a quick google search.

 

doesn't replacing our motor mounts with poly ones or whatev innovative mounts makes do a lot to get rid of wheel hop?

 

NO!!!!

 

fixed

 

i could really use some traction bars actually. wheelhop owns me.

 

1.9 60' on street tires

 

pretty damn impressive,
i still dont know how u achieve that, i know the auto are forgiving but Gosh.........

 

This wud be very helpful, it seems some already mk this for hondas.

Very good read.

http://www.full-race.com/articles/traction_bars.pdf

 

Impressive.

Since I have never heard about traction bars before and since I haven't read much into how they work, would those help improve your 60' times even more?

 

^fuck yah they would.

 

Traction bars are what got Ed Bergenholtz a sub 10 sec 1/4 in a CRX (I believe he was the first to do it).

The theory behind it isn't to prevent the car from popping a wheelie, it's to jam the front tires to the ground for launch purposes. If your wheels are forced down, they are less likely to spin leading to better ability to put 500+ hp to the wheels of a front drive car.

 

that would be scary ... 1.8 would almost translate to a 12.9 pass all else being equal

 

With the SHO we had reducers that allowed owner to use Pontiac GTP torque arms. Makes it cheap to buy the reducers and then goto the junk yard and pull the rest of the parts off a junked car.

 

that would be plain sick.

but anyways for the original question... no one makes anything close that would help? besides the torque dampeners, i would like to see some thing else

 

i dont believe thats what we're talking about.

 

That's what I'm seeing in NSXNEXT's post

 

that was before we used red text.

 

theres confusion on here of wheelie bars and traction bars. the original poster is talking about traction bars. i believe they preload the suspension by bolting in between the chassis and the lower control arms.

 

OK which is which, in Christian Rado's Integra he used a modified wheelie bar in his 8.91 at 159.85 mph. 1/4 mile run . wow

 

man no one is talking about wheelie bars...

 

I definitely don't want to drive down the street with those . Now Traction Bars is a different story.

 

finally, now that were on the second page and we've established that we're not talking about wheelie bars....

has anyone ever had or made traction bars for the CL??

 

Not that I saw when I looked...maybe P2R could make something? Maybe one of our vendors?