The folks at Chassis Engineering have a pair of popular products on hand here at the PRI show in Indianapolis, including a brand new XTR (Extreme) wishbone and a longtime favorite in their ladder bar lineup.

This wishbone design, as Chassis Engineering’s Curt Perry tells us, is larger and much stronger than a standard wishbone design. “This is a new design that we’ve been more progressive with. The standard wishbone is fine for most applications, but with the power that people are building now, and the tire shake and things that come with it, it’s just killing those bars.”

Chassis Engineering has gone to 1-1/4-inch tubing for this particular piece, with .95-inch wall chromoly tubing and a 1-1/4-inch threaded slide with 3/4-inch by 1/2-inch rod ends with NAS bolts, meaning they have all shoulder and very little thread on the bolts.

“Everything is pretty well maxed out on the strength with this wishbone,” explains Perry.

The other product, is an upgraded Outlaw ladder bar with 1-1/8-inch tubing, which is a departure from the typical one-inch DOM tubing, threaded ladder bar setup that was common in the past. This particular design adjusts like a four-link with adjustable upper bars rather than since adjuster at the bottom, and everything is entirely chromoly in makeup, from the rod rod ends to the brackets. These come in two versions, with one that fits the same location distance-wise as the standard ladder with 33-1/2 inches from the center of the axle to the front heim joint rod end, and a new setup that’s jig-welded minus the final set of tube adapters that allows the user to finish it to fit a specific application.

Chassis Engineering, a mainstay in the drag racing industry for more than 30 years, came under new ownership less than two years ago, when then General Manager Clayton Murphy purchased the West Palm Beach, Fla. business. Murphy shared at the time that he was committed to continuing to develop and supply high quality racing parts to the drag racing market, and the introduction of these components are just a small part of that ongoing mission.