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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My Dart has been 1.34 60 and most of the time will not pick up the front tires. The track and prep make a huge difference. Over the years I've been to a handful of radial races (200 mph 1/8 mile speeds) and all the tracks had one thing in common, the prep was great. Pull your shoes off great.

My buddy and I took my car to Jackson TN to do some shock testing a few years ago. I was struggling to get ahold of my local track and shock adjustments really weren't making any difference. He suggest we go to Jackson because of the track prep. Long story short, what we found was my rear set up was good (for Jackson), but the more we tightened the extension on the fronts, the better the 60' got. We finally ended up on full tight. My front shocks had been revalved for more or less a no prep track. I learned a lot that day, one thing was that the sidewalls on my 325 radials were shot, even with 21 psi it was wadding up the drivers side tire.