Handling Issues...
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Handling Issues... Last year my car handled great, only things that have changed since:
Motor/mid-mount plate
Pulled fuel cell (which was empty at the end of last year) and fuel pump out of the back and added a parachute so it lost some weight but not a ton
Since then, the car will launch straight as an arrow but when the front end sits down the entire car starts rocking left to right and I have to make slight steering corrections each direction for about 200 ft before it settles down. We've screwed with the rear shocks trying for some easy fix and it helped a little bit but it's still uneasy. It's a ladder bar car if that helps.
I was told it could be front shocks but I pulled them and just off feel they're pretty much the same, one goes up slightly faster than the other but nothing obvious. They're 3 way adjustable comp. engineering that I haven't fooled with yet.
Would you all go straight to the front shocks as well? My best theory at this point is that the front motor plate stiffened up the front and because the chassis has less give it goes to the shocks and causes the rocking.
Just looking for ideas, thanks.
Motor/mid-mount plate
Pulled fuel cell (which was empty at the end of last year) and fuel pump out of the back and added a parachute so it lost some weight but not a ton
Since then, the car will launch straight as an arrow but when the front end sits down the entire car starts rocking left to right and I have to make slight steering corrections each direction for about 200 ft before it settles down. We've screwed with the rear shocks trying for some easy fix and it helped a little bit but it's still uneasy. It's a ladder bar car if that helps.
I was told it could be front shocks but I pulled them and just off feel they're pretty much the same, one goes up slightly faster than the other but nothing obvious. They're 3 way adjustable comp. engineering that I haven't fooled with yet.
Would you all go straight to the front shocks as well? My best theory at this point is that the front motor plate stiffened up the front and because the chassis has less give it goes to the shocks and causes the rocking.
Just looking for ideas, thanks.
