Car Unloading Off The Line.
If you have a wolfe swaybar on the car, get someone to sit in the car that's the same weight, or as close as you can get, then get under the car, and unhook the right side link. Adjust it so that the bolt holding the link to the bar can go in and out easily without any binding, reattach and then make the endlink 1/4 turn longer, and start there. That will slightly preload the car and should get it leaving evenly, that's how I did mine and it leaves dead even every time. Put the front shocks at 4 and the rears at 5/6 and see what that gets you. The 12 lbs is what I run in the 28x10.5S tires, but I'm not running tubes, your regular et drags with tubes arr probably similar, leave the air pressure alone, maybe go up to 13 cold for the first run. Start with the car like that, see what it does and lemme know, our track's prep is usually iffy at best, and my car leaves like this every run off the transbrake
Last edited by JL ws-6; Aug 14, 2012 at 09:48 PM.
The way I describes setting the swaybar has worked for my car very well, one thing I did forget to mention, is the chassis rideheight. I have removed the rear spring rubbers and insulated the spring with a piece of hose to supress teh noise, this lowered the back of the car roughly a 1/2 inch. I also lowered the frotn about 3/4 an inch fron what the car was stock, and I made sure both sides in the front are even without anyone in the car, measuring from the center of the fender (thru the wheel center with the tape measure) to the ground.
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jack up the back of the car, get the frame on jack stands. Jack up the rear enough so that you can unbolt the rear shocks, then lower the rear down, the rear will now hang down past where the shocks normally hold it to, and the springs will come right out. Take the spring isloaters out, put a piece of hose over the first coil of the spring, replace springs on to the rear housing, jack rear up and reattach shocks.
Easy, takes about 45 min of you're doing it alone with no air tools, from the time you jack up the car ot the time it's back on the ground
Easy, takes about 45 min of you're doing it alone with no air tools, from the time you jack up the car ot the time it's back on the ground
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just did it dam its easy. I went to your local automotive to get the hose .98 a foot and used WD-40 to lube it and its slide right over. you may have to push the bottom of the springs up to get them off the rearend with your hands.
