Bottoming out on Launch...What to do?
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Bottoming out on Launch...What to do?
OK, so I can see I am hitting my bump stops in the rear on launches. What can I do to prevent this and get a better 60' maybe? Do I need shocks or springs? I have stock peices right now.
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I already did that. Have been for years. Still squats. Guess I should have mentioned what is done already. LCAs, LCA brackets, fixed* TA, !front sway bar. All else stock for suspension. It only pops the driver tire on good launches. Which is good I guess. But it just squats too hard.
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I already did that. Have been for years. Still squats. Guess I should have mentioned what is done already. LCAs, LCA brackets, fixed* TA, !front sway bar. All else stock for suspension. It only pops the driver tire on good launches. Which is good I guess. But it just squats too hard.
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Well this is my question, do I need shocks? Will shocks stop the squat? It is not a money issue yet, just need to know what needs to be done to stop squat. Right now I am looking into QA1s and Competition Engineering units. Do I NEED fronts? What are the bennefits to fronts? The suspension drops fine although when I brake the nose dives pretty hard so I know I need them eventually. Thanks for all the input so far. Please keep it coming.
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Im confused why this is happening to you. I am leaving the line with the front wheels a foot or more in the air, so all the weight is on my rear shocks/springs and I am not bottoming out. I have my stock shocks and springs that came with the car in 2001 with 65K Miles on them. Never changed them. Are you lowerd? Yeah your car is 360lbs, maybe its a bit too heavy for the rear springs to handle all the weight? I would think that some new OEM Shocks andf springs should be able to handle the weight transfer.
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Originally Posted by BADSZ28
Well this is my question, do I need shocks? Will shocks stop the squat? It is not a money issue yet, just need to know what needs to be done to stop squat. Right now I am looking into QA1s and Competition Engineering units. Do I NEED fronts? What are the bennefits to fronts? The suspension drops fine although when I brake the nose dives pretty hard so I know I need them eventually. Thanks for all the input so far. Please keep it coming.
get a set of adjustable shocks all the way around qa1 will work fine.
you can adjust the shocks for the squat, but you want the car to have weight transfer so that you can get a good 60ft, we ran 6 turns in the front and 3 in the rear with the qa1s and where going 1.28 60fts [we cut the bump stops out]
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The 9" hits the floor so I do not want to cut-out the stops. I have pretty good weight transfer. I pull one tire and still bottom the rear suspension at 3600lbs+. I have launch pics that show the transfer. I have cut a 1.51 60' so far. I watched a vid of my car and you can see the car come down, then bounce up and come back down.
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Originally Posted by BADSZ28
Well this is my question, do I need shocks? Will shocks stop the squat? It is not a money issue yet, just need to know what needs to be done to stop squat. Right now I am looking into QA1s and Competition Engineering units. Do I NEED fronts? What are the bennefits to fronts? The suspension drops fine although when I brake the nose dives pretty hard so I know I need them eventually. Thanks for all the input so far. Please keep it coming.
Then take a BFH and clearance the body where the 9" hits...The car needs to sit on top of the tires...let it squat. shocks will only control soo much.