Cal trac /mono leaf results

Well, I am still pulling my hair out. Nothing seems to work. We photo'd the back wheels on 5 hits with 5 seperate single adjustments. It seems to launch fine, wheels up, plants the tires hard,and as it moves forward you can see the tires start to come back up, then it is like someone jacked the tires off the ground till they are almost off, so they spin.Runs are all over the place,the exact amount the run is off, is all in the 60'.1-2 teeths.If it hooks, it's an 11:07, if it spins, it can be anywere from a 11:17-11:27...same MPH either way.All in the 60'.
The next day was a race, and we only got 2 time trials, I threw a 3700 chip in it, and it seemed to help, but got thrown off because it seems to have taken .020 off my reaction times.
I loose the race by .0018...Yup 18 10 thou.I cut a .036 to his .077 (I put 10 back in, because I wasn't sure about my RT loss)So it would have been .026 which would have won the race.He ran dead on with a little, I run 4 teeths off my number.
I am at shocks on hardest, bars in bottom hole, no preload, and 3700 with a 5500 converter.13 lbs TP.
My buddy is struggeling too, but he seems to think he found the sweet spot with 150 LBS in the trunk. Shocks on softest, and bars in bottom hole with 2 complete turns (not flats) of preload, and leaving full on the converter @ 5500.12 lbs TP.
I am going to test and tune next fri. and try this set up, but don't have much faith. Man I am disappointed. The car is faster, but I am a looser. I am down to 14th in points. I keep loosing rounds because I can't dial the car. I am fine on the tree,just can't guess what the car wants to do on the next run, so I just throw numbers at it..
I am beginning to think Cal Tracs are for Camaro's or work good for footbraking, but not transbraking.We will see. I see ladder bars in my future.