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Old 06-19-2005, 06:31 PM
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Dont know if this should be in the handling fourm or this one... but any ways.
My car has mods in sig and very soon i will be gitting a 4.10 and a set of pro stars with MT 275 street radials. I know i should take the lowering springs off and put a set of 6 cyl springs on. What else will I have to do to lift the wheels? skinnys,Tubelar K member, Relocate the battery, TQ arm, SFC, LCAs more power?
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It depends on what kind of power you're making, weight of car, suspension set up etc. so basically everything you said.
Try to keep them on the ground
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A rearend would be nice otherwise im seeing an explosion sometime soon
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Originally Posted by WhtLT1
A rearend would be nice otherwise im seeing an explosion sometime soon


Trying to pull the front on a stock rear with 4.10's in an M6 car will almost surely end with a

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With an M6 and 4.10's in a stock rear the only thing you'll be lifting off the ground is your car when they put it on a tow truck to get it home.
Save the gear $$$ and put it twards a rear end.
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Bye bye rearend!

And yes, why would you want to pull the fronts? Took me 3 runs to dial the suspension in to keep the fronts from lifting in my A4 on motor, but I finally got my 11.96!
You have "BMR Stuff" listed, kind of vague. So, get a set of nice shocks, QA1/Hal or AFCO, definately get the SFC before you twist the body beyond desire, and LCA's/Relocation Brackets wouldnt hurt any. If your BMR Stuff doesnt include an adjustable rear drag sway bar, might want to get an airbag for the LR.
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Bye bye rearend!

And yes, why would you want to pull the fronts? Took me 3 runs to dial the suspension in to keep the fronts from lifting in my A4 on motor, but I finally got my 11.96!
You have "BMR Stuff" listed, kind of vague. So, get a set of nice shocks, QA1/Hal or AFCO, definately get the SFC before you twist the body beyond desire, and LCA's/Relocation Brackets wouldnt hurt any. If your BMR Stuff doesnt include an adjustable rear drag sway bar, might want to get an airbag for the LR.
I'm curious, what exactly are you running that you can lift the fronts running 11.96?
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Originally Posted by blkZ28spt
I'm curious, what exactly are you running that you can lift the fronts running 11.96?
You don't really need alot to lift the fronts. i've seen cars runn low 12's lifting the skinnies.
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Originally Posted by SUX2BU
You don't really need alot to lift the fronts. i've seen cars runn low 12's lifting the skinnies.
I wondered what it took. I'm going to have to look into what it'd take to get my front end up a little bit. I'm running times in sig, so apparently with the right suspension setup and weight distribution it should be possible.
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Jen was lifting the fronts on her Z28 when it just had headers and a lid, but we did have a BMR X-Treme TQ arm and SFC, B&M TH400 with 4.33s. She could easily go 1.5s and 12.0s @ 110s. You need to lighten the front end up, we removed the front sway bar and alot of the interior pieces.
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Front sway bar removed and QA1's (front) helped a lot. Mine's pretty solid in the 1.5 60's now. Like the others have said....be careful with the M6 launches. Good luck!
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i should be liftin them this season if not both then the left front haha but hope both

in the off season i put on all spohn rear suspention lca, panhard, TA, and got some subframes. i also got a 12 bolt with 4.10s. i plan to run skines and some mt etstreet radials and see how high i can get. i wana launch close to 6000 and if the etstreets dont do it i got my buddies huge 305 et drags haha

and i got some power also
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Going to QA-1 12-ways and front skinnies were the last mods I did to start getting the wheels off the ground at launch.

However, that's them working in conjunction with all the other suspension mods I have (which include V6 rear springs, adj. torque arm, etc. etc. etc. And the Super Street Fighter 3500 definitely plays a role as well.




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