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03-24-2011, 11:25 AM
#21
I watched you race at Englishtown twice. Never breaking more then a 1.4 60' time while others pulled 1.30-1.31 60' times. Must have been poor track prep?
You made your best and only ever 9.5 passes there. That would be a total of 2. Then you blamed the track prep and claimed you could run 2 tenths faster at any other track but never did...
03-24-2011, 12:50 PM
#23
with airbags the springs will never wear because the air bags support them from inside and the bags don't lose their shape cause the springs hold the side true from the outside. My car is a '98 and I still have my stock rear springs.
Why fight and try to narrow down a spring rate if you could just change a few psi here and there? Good track conditions, more psi, better chassis response. Track going away, soften them up a bit. It's another adjustment to fine tune your suspension.
One thing of mention, with the dragbar and actually Spohn recommended to me years ago, if you are going to run airbags with a drag bar run 2 separate fill lines, don't tee them together because they will share air dragbar won't work like it's intended to.
Why fight and try to narrow down a spring rate if you could just change a few psi here and there? Good track conditions, more psi, better chassis response. Track going away, soften them up a bit. It's another adjustment to fine tune your suspension.
One thing of mention, with the dragbar and actually Spohn recommended to me years ago, if you are going to run airbags with a drag bar run 2 separate fill lines, don't tee them together because they will share air dragbar won't work like it's intended to.
03-24-2011, 12:58 PM
#24
One thing of mention, with the dragbar and actually Spohn recommended to me years ago, if you are going to run airbags with a drag bar run 2 separate fill lines, don't tee them together because they will share air dragbar won't work like it's intended to.
03-24-2011, 01:02 PM
#25
What is your interpretation of hooking?
I watched you race at Englishtown twice. Never breaking more then a 1.4 60' time while others pulled 1.30-1.31 60' times. Must have been poor track prep?
You made your best and only ever 9.5 passes there. That would be a total of 2. Then you blamed the track prep and claimed you could run 2 tenths faster at any other track but never did...
I watched you race at Englishtown twice. Never breaking more then a 1.4 60' time while others pulled 1.30-1.31 60' times. Must have been poor track prep?
You made your best and only ever 9.5 passes there. That would be a total of 2. Then you blamed the track prep and claimed you could run 2 tenths faster at any other track but never did...
Well. the car went 9.5x at etown, lvd, and island... never had a problem getting the car to run consistant... attached an image of one slip I had scanned from LVD. Nice 1.4 60 foot time, just for you. But, I also would do that with the rear tires... see sig picture. Apparently you don't remember that day very well either, as it went 9.59, 9.56 and a 9.53 3 runs in a row...
It's easy to get a car toput up a 60 foot number with the bumper coming down and tripping the beams as well...
Car took care of business. Regardless what you seem to think, and will take care of business again when it's back together. We build/set up to win races , and that does happen. Pretty, ugly, whatever you want to call it... but I get win lights. Wether it be off a reaction time, car setup, etc.
My junk gets the job done.
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03-24-2011, 01:04 PM
#26
Yes. GM used to have a bunch of different springs for these cars. I have found that they like stagger in the rear (my application). I currently use aftermarket springs because GM only lists one number now.
I have never seen this in my stuff. I have had the same springs and bag in Gump for a lot of years and a lot of passes. The ride in the trailer is probably the hardest on suspension if you are not careful about what you are doing.
At the LTX Shootout in 2009 we made three passes within .01 heads-up back-to-back. When we run in bracket mode we are normally within .01 unless we really miss our tune-up.
I have never seen this in my stuff. I have had the same springs and bag in Gump for a lot of years and a lot of passes. The ride in the trailer is probably the hardest on suspension if you are not careful about what you are doing.
At the LTX Shootout in 2009 we made three passes within .01 heads-up back-to-back. When we run in bracket mode we are normally within .01 unless we really miss our tune-up.
03-24-2011, 05:19 PM
#31
What is your interpretation of hooking?
I watched you race at Englishtown twice. Never breaking more then a 1.4 60' time while others pulled 1.30-1.31 60' times. Must have been poor track prep?
You made your best and only ever 9.5 passes there. That would be a total of 2. Then you blamed the track prep and claimed you could run 2 tenths faster at any other track but never did...
I watched you race at Englishtown twice. Never breaking more then a 1.4 60' time while others pulled 1.30-1.31 60' times. Must have been poor track prep?
You made your best and only ever 9.5 passes there. That would be a total of 2. Then you blamed the track prep and claimed you could run 2 tenths faster at any other track but never did...
**** jfm's h/c 346 car went 1.31 with 400 rwhp and 10.1....
03-24-2011, 08:34 PM
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Well. the car went 9.5x at etown, lvd, and island... never had a problem getting the car to run consistant... attached an image of one slip I had scanned from LVD. Nice 1.4 60 foot time, just for you. But, I also would do that with the rear tires... see sig picture. Apparently you don't remember that day very well either, as it went 9.59, 9.56 and a 9.53 3 runs in a row...
It's easy to get a car toput up a 60 foot number with the bumper coming down and tripping the beams as well...
Car took care of business. Regardless what you seem to think, and will take care of business again when it's back together. We build/set up to win races , and that does happen. Pretty, ugly, whatever you want to call it... but I get win lights. Wether it be off a reaction time, car setup, etc.
My junk gets the job done.
It's easy to get a car toput up a 60 foot number with the bumper coming down and tripping the beams as well...
Car took care of business. Regardless what you seem to think, and will take care of business again when it's back together. We build/set up to win races , and that does happen. Pretty, ugly, whatever you want to call it... but I get win lights. Wether it be off a reaction time, car setup, etc.
My junk gets the job done.
03-26-2011, 10:55 AM
#33
I knew if provoked you'd cave and tell us all how full of B/S you are. 9.5 at E-Town couldn't be overcome by 2 tenths at any other track like you boasted.
Keep trying, eventually you'll go faster then you talk...
Last edited by Firehawk441; 03-26-2011 at 11:54 AM.
