Haviing raced since 1971, and with very little thought to what was happening at launch, i tried a number of things. Had i understood the math then, i may have come up with better solutions sooner. My first decent car was a charger with torqueflight, 440, 3000 stall, 4.30 gears, 28 x 9 slicks. Running 12.50s at 112 mph. A quick look at the math;
400 ft lb torque(?) X conerter (2xtorque) X 2.45 low x 4.30 rear gear equals 8428 ft pounds of force at the rear housing trying to twist the leafsprings. We needed serius shocks, and didn,t know it
