Im looking to improve my 60’. After taking a slo mo I’ve got more wheel spin off the line than I thought. In this video the tire pressure was low, 7.5psi. I brought it up to 10psi but I’m still in the best 60’ times of 1.48. When I had the tires at 12-15psi it didn’t seem like I could break out of the 1.5 range.

The car has stock style suspension rear with torque arm. Nothing is adjustable except pinion angle, new stock style shocks.

The front is stock suspension running competition engineering shocks setup in 90/10 dampening ratio.

Running a power glide with brake currently set at 4500 on the two step.

What are some suggestions you guys think I should try next time out. Which will be at LS fest where I’m hoping they will have better prep too.

How much of a burnout are you doing?
What is your pinion angle?

Looks like your front end transfers just fine, maybe some adjustable shocks for the rear?

Without climbing under the car and checking I don’t know the pinion angle off hand. Here’s another video including a burnout.

Just so I’m understanding and learning how do the adjustable shocks help in the rear?

I ordered some QA1 double adjustables. And I looking to set them up like the fronts since it’s a torque arm car. Fast rebound slow compression?

The car does have a competition engineering anti roll bar. It’s hard to see once I download to YouTube but going frame by frame zoomed in the tires appear to travel at the same rate. And it picks the front wheels equally.

I agree 7.5 was def too low of pressure. In that video they were wadding up and “snapping”. My friends got more videos later in the night but the lighting was messing with the slow mo. I’m going to try to get one of those and post it tomorrow. So far 10-12 psi seems to be my magic number, best of 1.481 60’, the 7.5psi run was a 1.531 60’. Not to say as I change things another pressure won’t be better.

My my two step was originally set much lower. Raising it helped but I haven’t played with it much at all.

The cars body pretty much limits me to a 24”x8” slick. My street tires are closer to 26” but you can’t fit a finger in between the front and rear of the tire to the body. I don’t want a slick expanding and contacting causing a blowout on the top end. As much as I know a larger tire will help I want to save this for last so I don’t have to chop fenders. They are already lip rolled to prevent contacting.

The slicks hold the weight of the car without wrinkling under normal sitting and driving. I was shocked to see them wrap up like that. I’m not sure if theyre a soft or stiff wall slick.

The first video was on brand new gas charged shocks. The second videos the shocks were new’ish but cheap and completely blown. They had no gas charge left.

Lastly the trans is a freak show performance built power glide 1.76 first gear. Rear end is a moser built 9” with 3.00 gear and spool.

Thanks for for the help guys, I’d like to see what the car is capable of pulling a low 1.4 or even a high 1.3 60’

Here are the other videos my friend took. The first one from the passenger side is my fastest pass to date and my fastest 60’ to date, 10.41-1.481 both of these passes are with the tires at 10psi


This is a drivers side view with a 10.48-1.489

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I was pretty adamant I wasn’t going to buy good shocks anytime soon. Hopefully next year I planned on chopping a lot of the car up and I was going to a trailing arm setup with coilovers. The fronts were pretty cheap and I didn’t think the rears were that bad and spinning that bad. But I’m looking to give myself the best chance I can for this years LS fest East.

Thanks again guys guys I’ll report back with some new videos/times after the new shocks.

Tires first is a no go, I’m out of room in the body. Tuning suspension is almost a no go, I don’t have multiple lower control arm positions. Gears are never going to change, unless it’s for more gear so it’s nicer to drive on the highway. It’s already crossing the line at 6k as it is. I got my shocks in the mail yesterday and will be putting them on today. I’d like to test this Friday but Ive already got other plans.

6000 doesn’t scare me. But if I remember right my engine take a nose dive at 6500 and the rev limit is set at 65-6700. I’m shifting around 6500. You can hear me tag the rev limiter on the very first video because I was getting a little out of shape.

LS fest was really busy. Only managed to get two runs in. This was my best. I might have to blame a little bit on my burnout though to be honest. Just wanted to get an idea if my suspension looks better?
QA1 shocks set on 8 clicks compression 3 rebound. Tires at 12psi. 2 step at 4K.



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