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Old Aug 26, 2002 | 05:44 PM
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Ok, just thinking outloud looking for others advice. As of right now, with the mods in the sig on the Z28, it's pretty damn consistent. 11 runs in one night, 9 of them were 1.70-1.71. The other two were 1.69 and 1.68 60fts. Anyways, i'm running e.t. drags and it feels like it's dead hooking. On the 1.69 and 1.68 passes, i have video and could feel it pull the tire a couple inches. NOW, with that said, if it is dead hooking, would I benefit at all with the addition of some HAL/QA1 shocks? Cause I see a lot of others with the same Vig3200 converter cutting much better 60's. Granted weight of the car plays a role, and my car's raceweight is 3400lbs even, and i'm 160lbs. So any thoughts on the shocks?

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<small>[ August 26, 2002, 05:47 PM: Message edited by: z28kid98 ]</small>
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Old Aug 26, 2002 | 05:55 PM
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Not really if you're dead hooking. The only theorectical way that I can see that they might could help a tiny bit is allowing you to limit the body movement by really stiffening them up. If you could still dead hook with less body movement then you should be just a smidge quicker.
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