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What would make it feel like almost a wheel hop in the burnout? Caltracs/mono leafs / rear sliders / Calvert's shocks. Preload is set to zero plus 2 flats. I can't recall the shock setting but it's on the stiffer side.
If the bars are running up hill it will do that.
As a general rule (against what almost every “expert” says the bar should run down hill. This is for a traction bar, ladder bar or 4 link. Unless you make no power. Then the bar can run up hill. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a case where an up hill bar was a good thing.
As the bar is raised up, you hit the tire harder and quicker but for a much shorter duration.
Lowering the bar hits the tire less hard, slower and for a longer duration.
I have a video I took less than a year ago of a car that is killing the tire because (one reason) his bar is running up hill. It’s a stick car so it’s even more critical. He has no way to control the application of the clutch. That’s bad. He has way too much flywheel weight. That’s bad.
So when you add those things into the up hill bars you just kill the tire.
I‘d post the video but I never told him I was going to take it, nor did I have the chance to show it to him so he could visually see what he was doing to the tire.
I would feel bad showing his car and video on here and critiquing it without him knowing it. That feels underhanded and nasty to me.
If you get enough thins out of whack you can make it so you can’t get enough control with any shock.
