Need help from the suspension gurus here!

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.
This is another good point that gets lost and not sure it's relevant to this post but it is true that the sidewall is the most important aspect of a drag radial.....whatever "tread" one thinks they have or wear bar holes per say aren't nowhere near as important as protecting the sidewall. This is one of the reasons why guys will run larger width rims, run bead locks etc. all in an effort to keep the sidewall stiff......you don't want to be crushing the sidewall as it will prematurely ruin the tire.....again really good shocks come into play here. Thanks for bringing that up....