NW Iowa WS6

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My car is a "Street strip" car that puts on about 2-3K miles a year in our 5-6 month season between winter storage. After 10 years on the rear stock SLP bilsteins and the rest of my cars suspension replaced for drag parts I decided to try the COMP ENGINEERING 3way drag shocks. Now they do say for "drag racing use only" and they mean it. After 1 trip to the track with a 70mile drive each way they developed an annoying squeak and 1 was pumping oil out. Money wasted, trashed them, bilsteins back on. 60foots were identical between the stock bilsteins and them 1.61-1.65. Next I thought i'd give the Lakewood 50/50 non-adjustable "street strip" shocks. 60foots remained the same as the Bilsteins and Comps and they lasted the rest of last season(about 1500 miles) until the last race day of the year.....after my burnout I pull up to the line redline dump it as usual and thank goodness I have a 35spline 9" because my car was wheelhopping so bad I thought I was gonna split the car in half. After babying it down the track I pull back into the pits and push down on my rear end and it was like a blown air ride 90's caddy and both were pumping oil out the top. I could get that bitch bouncing like a ghetto donk with hydraulics. Bilsteins are back on and doing fine.

Moral of the story, you get what you pay for and maybe its because I street drove these shocks but don't make the mistake I did. Hold out for Afco, QA1, Strange etc...my front QA1 R's have 3 years on them and they perform like new yet.

RENE'S RAGE

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You dump the clutch at redline.

NW Iowa WS6

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Yes, 6400rpm on my car, pretty much every built rear and slicked 6speed does except with nitrous, anything less than that and it bogs, front end lifts then falls on its face.

If you think thats crazy here is a 6.0 T56 doing a 7800rpm launch http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...7800+dump&sm=3

93camaro_zzz

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I would be interested to see you try out a pair of top of the line AFCO's. I wouldn't be surprised if you still sixty foot 1.61-1.65. Besides the shocks leaking and breaking, it might not be the shocks fault.

studderin

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fix the wheel hop, get the suspension setup right.

shocks and slicks dont work good when they come off the ground

WVhuggerSS

You do get what you pay for, had a set that was leaking as soon as I got them out of the box, made me mad so I bought afcos. But my buddy bought a set used and has had them for acouple years and has cut 1.30 sixty foot times and run as fast as 9.95. Automatic car but you have to make sure everything else is right to lol.

NW Iowa WS6

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@studderin, suspension is setup good, ONLY WHEELHOPPED 1 TIME with the LAKEWOODS when they BLEW lol, it never ever does otherwise haha. After that pass I could take both shocks and pull them in and out with ease squirting oil. 10 year old bilsteins launch hard and smooth every pass slightly pulling the front wheels with no nose dive.

NW Iowa WS6

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The other 4-5 race days with the Lakewoods and the 1 with the Comp's it launched real nice too, both just had a patheticly short life

DietCoke

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That car makes too much power to 60 foot like ****. Take it to a chassis shop and pay someone who knows what they are doing to fix the suspension, then get a fast guy to teach you how to launch the car.

NW Iowa WS6

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It's always cute when jackass' with an auto comment on launching a manual trans, especially with no info on the track they are racing at. 3600pounds, 440whp with a 26" et street tire doing low 1.6's on Friday night street car shoot outs with little to no prep is damn good here, honestly the only car cars ive seen do 1.5's or better here on a Friday night is an 800+whp 9 second drag eclipse with slicks front and rear and a couple 30"+ big tire drag cars.

jsteele90

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wow your track sucks.

NW Iowa WS6

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On normal race days it's prepped a lot more when the weekend regular bracket racers race but I only go on the once a month friday heads up street car shootouts where 99% of the vehicles are street tires or pickups with all terrains, in the tracks defense not really much reason to prep well for that.

jsteele90

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true the majority of our tracks around here prep like **** also. It doesnt help when 120hp hondas oil down the track every 5 runs also.

Doug G

Screw Friday nite TNT's
Like you said, ricers blowing oil, dragging water to the start line. 4x4's and mud tires, dirt bikes...not much fun for me.

Shownomercy

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Granted I am an auto car, but they have been great for me and I know two other (auto) cars that ran them with great results.

Sub 1.6 area 60fts

MidwestChassis

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We would recommend going with the double adjustable smooth body Viking shocks. They are built here in the USA and are perfect for this application. Give us a call and we can get you set up. We have been dealing with Viking longer than anyone else. It is a good product at a great price. They also offer a 2 year warranty and can be shipped the same day usually.

sweetbmxrider

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I bought the cheaper summit ones for 3rd gens. They are pretty retarded to set first go around but my friend got them where I wanted and they have been in for a few years with plenty of street driving and around 40 passes. Best 60 is a 1.50 popping the front tires but I am an auto with radials. I think I need more power to get any faster off of the line. Dry as a bone too, I got lucky.

gator's 99TA

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Comp Engineering 3 way shocks got my pile so many 1.3x 60' its not funny. Thats when the car didnt go sky high...


I ran those for years. Having said that, my car has gone 1.2x with fancy DA Strange rears.

NW Iowa WS6

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Nice, you got lucky, my Comps started squeaking like a dog toy every bump the first ride home from the track with oil coming out of one, can't say they launched bad the first and only day I used them, no worse or better than the bilsteins or lakewoods

gator's 99TA

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We have a few local cars that run this shock with similar results. All leave on a transbrake on nitrous with slicks or radials. We set them to full stiff and ride out. On stock worn out shocks I went 1.4x a load of times with a hand full of 1.39 to 1.37s.