Need help from the suspension gurus here!

furrystump said

Absolutely! MANY things going on to get it to launch. He’s still low 1.5’s in the 60’ in a car that is 3300 lbs? He is definitely not using all the power at the hit. He is using enough to top out the suspension with very little stored energy in the front suspension. To date these cars don’t/can’t really “carry” the front tire. They lift them, but not really carry them. The question being. How high do you really want to lift the tire. Wasted energy up instead of out. I NEED the energy to get the nose up in a quick enough fashion to be useful.

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You hit on a very important topic that I think is being promoted in this thread but with the shock technology available today you no longer need to " yank the front " to transfer weight to the rear tires and keep the tire planted after the hit......you see it in your class with the fastest top tier cars and also with most of the very fast radial cars as they leave almost dead flat.....just stick and bye bye......the OP needs some good rear shocks for one and also needs to talk to one of the top shock and spring companies tech support to get the right components for his car's specifics. I'm guessing on your own car which being a 340 car if I remember correctly and obviously doesn't have near the power of the 427 and Hemi guys and you don't have any kind of launch control and so you still have to make it work for a lack of better terms "the old way" with weight transfer.