i must be completely missing something ?!?

What you are missing is a chassis that works...........why traction bars AND a pinion snubber? With the bars set correctly the snubber will never come into play and vice verse. One of them is just dead weight. What are your shocks? Are they adjustable? Do you have a good vid of your car launching at the track?

You are also missing a good set of heads..........a cam with [email protected] isn't gonna be able to truly deliver what it's capable of thru a 1.88 valve unless you really spin it.

Worried about breaking sh**; we all are, welcome to the club!

the car came with the traction bars so I use them. I noticed they were bending when I changed to the eight and three quarter. I was able to slap the pinion snubber on just before the last race and adjusted it within a quarter inch and it seemed to work better. just haven't had time to get the traction bars off yet. And yeah I don't mind being part of the breaking s*** club it's just the fixing s*** club and paying for the broken s*** club but I'm still trying to get used to! lolView attachment 20141124_175614.jpg

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