Stick car suspension set up

OK. I'll try to help.

As much as I like and respect my ratty bastid friend, I'm a HUGE fan of the 002 and 003 SS springs. But get someone else's version, NOT Mopar Performance. Theirs were made in Mexico last I knew and had at LEAST one bad batch of spring steel. I don't trust them anymore. Mancini, General Spring or ESPO can fix you up. Also, normally, I'm no huge fan of a pinion snubber, BUT in the case of manual transmissions, they can be useful.

But the ratty bastid makes some solid points with the Assassin bars. That's certainly one way to do it and it'll work. Keep this in mind. There are cars runnin as quick as high sevens (that's QUARTER mile times) with SS or equivalent leaf springs, so leaf springs DO work. Over and out.

Oh one more thing. I'm not familiar with the clutch tamer anymore than enough to see they can work well. I think what they do is make the clutch hit softer so as not to shock the suspension and lose so much traction.

The end answer is there's no real right or wrong way, just different ways to accomplish the same goal. I tell you what I would do if I were you. Go to the strip and see what manual transmission guys are doing successfully with cars similar to yours BEFORE you spend any money. You might learn a lot.


It’s not so much that I’m against the SS springs and snubbers, I just want as much of the chassis to be as adjustable as I can get. Especially with a clutch car.

DAMN…I forgot the tell the OP that he NEEDS a two step. That’s also nonnegotiable too. You just MUST have some way to control lunch RPM from run to run to run. Plus, it’s another tuning tool. Moving the RPM up and down changes the hit the tire sees at the hit.

You can do a ton with two step RPM and it’s the quickest, easiest adjustment there is.