How do you get a Suspension to hook, when the track surface is marginal at best

Back in the day, the mopar race manuals always said, for dragracing , if u can`t hit the weight of your car with the exact spring weight recommendation, ''TO GO TO THE NEXT ONE LITER", engine had nothing to do with it !
002-003 springs are definitly the right springs for a 3100 pound A body ---------We used to run them on a 3600 pound hemi belvedere, with the back of the leaves de clamped, ''used Imperial shocks'', there were a few times when the track was prepped good and our slicks were new, it carried the front wheels to the second gear change. But not often, the track usually sucked !~!