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Originally Posted by Ipedog
After doing all that work they should have ditched the t-bars and gone with coil-overs. 
Pretty damn sweet nonetheless  |
There is nothing really wrong with the Torsion Bar design, there are even a few Trophy Trucks out there with Torsion Bars that work very well. If you get good torsion bars, there is no real disadvantages over a coil over. I hear F1 cars use Torsion Bars, but of course they dont have much wheel travel
The Torsion bar puts the spring load into the center of the chassis, where the coil over would put the spring and the shock load into the front shock mounts, and put more bending load into the front of the frame rails. Torsions also keep weight lower in the vehicle.