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Old Aug 7, 2009 | 07:03 AM
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what was your best 60ft last night?
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Old Aug 7, 2009 | 07:57 AM
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what was your best 60ft last night?
The 3rd when I actually made a full pass was a 1.38
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Old Aug 7, 2009 | 09:42 AM
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Wow, nice build. looks great.
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 05:46 PM
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Running straight as an arrow today during the arm Drop Live event. made 5 runs Friday all between 9.60-9.66 all in the 139mph range except one 140.18 run. I was happy about breaking 140! Running more Sunday as Saturday was postponed due to rain. Still launching off idle though.
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 11:22 PM
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tell me a little more about your instant centre measurement and rear spring rates we are gonna get this car leaving un bound and tickling the pavement on the top end come on it could be fun
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 11:39 PM
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1.38 off idle is INSANE.
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by orange88ls1s-dime
tell me a little more about your instant centre measurement and rear spring rates we are gonna get this car leaving un bound and tickling the pavement on the top end come on it could be fun
I don't know much about the rear suspension except that it bites. It htoo as some ladder bars that have no adjustment. I think the instant center is way too high and the car stands the back en up after it gets rolling. It has Qa1 rear shock with unknown spring rate. Last year when I was running slower 10.9's it really didn't show itself as an issue but now I have power it totally is.

Here is a thread I started somewhere else a while ago talking about it with pictures.

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Best ET this weekend was 9.60 and best MPH was 140.18
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 08:47 PM
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too bad you didnt have some adjustment for the front of the ladder bars maybe see if you can fab some tabs a little lower to drop it but i think you have more of an issue with spring rate if you say initial hit is good but unloads the tire once rolling the spring rate is overpowering the rebound valving and frying them up remember you only need enough spring to hold up the car supple is key you should be able to hop into the car and it will jiggle around for a second after you get in i just helped out the ihra Pro Mod record holder figure out the rear suspension and we ended up with 125lb springs in it with resin discs and torrington bearings on the end to reduce bind like i said before id like to see this car run some good times it definately has potential
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Originally Posted by orange88ls1s-dime
too bad you didnt have some adjustment for the front of the ladder bars maybe see if you can fab some tabs a little lower to drop it but i think you have more of an issue with spring rate if you say initial hit is good but unloads the tire once rolling the spring rate is overpowering the rebound valving and frying them up remember you only need enough spring to hold up the car supple is key you should be able to hop into the car and it will jiggle around for a second after you get in i just helped out the ihra Pro Mod record holder figure out the rear suspension and we ended up with 125lb springs in it with resin discs and torrington bearings on the end to reduce bind like i said before id like to see this car run some good times it definately has potential
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I'm just starting to watch a few videos and it doesn't look like the cars back-end moved at all until it springs up. here is a vid of my first try at the trans break. You can see the back stand up after I hit it.

I have been doing a lot of online research and will look more into spring setups. And I need some ajustability in these ladder bars! Or just a new setup but I want to get it as good as i can this year and focus on major changes over the winter.

If you cant see the vid yet then it isn't done processing. it will be ready in a minute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnHKnrMnXrY
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yeah, jegs is running a sell on wheelie bars right now! lol! i love it!
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 10:47 PM
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wats your pinion angle on that thing 8degrees hehe definately need to drop the front of those ladderbars whoa that things got leverage and the spring rate is way too much if your gonna wait till winter to do the ladder bar mods at least drop the spring rate down a few hundred pounds and pull some pinion angle out of it to get some preload out j/k about the few hundred pounds but quite a bit
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Pk4XD4Mbw
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 08:54 PM
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that pass wasnt off the trans brake was it?
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Old Aug 10, 2009 | 09:06 PM
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that pass wasnt off the trans brake was it?

Nope, Idle
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Old Aug 12, 2009 | 09:38 AM
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Damn, nice looking project, and seems like it gonna be a killer!

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Just an update. I know I have work over the winter to change the ladder bar setup to something workable but for now I'm making the best with what I have. I added front end limiters then started to soften the suspension up in the rear and moving the launch RPM up until I got something that would keep the front end down enough to keep control. I have worked my way up to a 3900rpm launch and ran some 9.5x's this weekend with a best of 9.55@140.21 60 was 1.34 with a best of the weekend of 1.320 but the car turned to the wall with the wheels up and when it came back down I couldn't get her back in the grove and just let out on that run. Slowly but surly. It seems if I can get off the line at 4400 like I want it could have some 9.4's in it.
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Old Aug 31, 2009 | 07:24 PM
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i just got done building a set of custom wheelie bars for a S/G Monza if you need a set PM me or for anything
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awesome build
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 09:32 PM
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great build. My buddy has a tubbed out vega. I'm gonna show him this thread

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Old Sep 27, 2009 | 12:30 PM
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I had the chance to check this car out at Milan yesterday and it is definitely a very nice setup.

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