Drag racing setup vs Street Rod? Shocks or ??

Part of the issue is you have way too much spring up front. You are way over sprung for a drag car and no shock will correct that. You’ve already been burned once buying an effectively untunable shock. You can buy double adjustable shocks for about the same price as a single adjustable. Always buy DA shocks. I don’t know what the spring rate is for that big bar, but you have to take a bunch of weight off it (meaning pitch rotate the chassis) just to move it an inch. What I’m saying is (using made up numbers) that lets say your torsion bars have a 500 lb/in spring rate. That means to compress the spring 1 inch you need to add 500 pounds to it. The opposite is true. If you want to raise the front of the car 1 inch you have to take 500 pounds off the spring. It’s as simple as that. Now let’s say you change out the bars to 250 lb/in bars. Now it only takes 250 pounds off the spring to make it move 1 inch. That means is takes less weight to get the car to pitch rotate with the spring with less rate. To get the ride height back, you adjust the bars up. If it was a coil over spring car you’d just raise the platform the spring sits on to get your ride height. With out addressing the torsion bars, in my opinion you’ll never get what you want. You’ll have to chose between street ride comfort and track ET. With the percentages you posted above, I’d leave what you have in there and live with the ET.

PST bars are 230 lbs/inch. 6 cyl bars are 100 lbs/inch each. So I have a difference of 260 lbs/inch for both.

I guess I could have asked my question a bit differently. If my current setup does not break the tires loose, is there any benefit to changing shocks? Either front or rear? If by doing so, What would I see as far as the change in both the drag strip and on the street? FWIW, I do have my original 6 cyl torsion bars. I changed them because they were riding almost on the bump stops. Perhaps they are worn out or defective. If I am understanding your reply correctly, I could use smaller torsion bars with adjustable shocks that would help improve both street and drag, but adjustable shocks set at a lighter setting would still not help with the heavy torsion bars. What about the rear setup? Any help there? Any improvements with adjustables?

I have an extra set of rims that I can even go to drag slicks instead of drag radials. I had MT SS street radials in 255/60-15 with a bit of mileage left, then I will need to replace them.