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Old 03-15-2008, 08:45 AM
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What Suspension mods do you guys have and what are you guys launching at(Please state stall speed and TC Manufacturer, and also tires;whether or not you use skinnies, DR's, slicks, or if your just using street tires)? Thanks guys!
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This post probably won't help cause I'm not good at launching my car:

2.73 gears. No stall yet.
STB, LCA, PHR, TQ ARM, SFC, Stock springs, Stock Struts.
I launch at 1000 RPM
Nitto Drag Radials 275/40/17's at 25 psi.
13.6 @ 103 mph. with a 2.0 sixty foot.

What would I change about my setup??? Alot.
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With a non adjustable TQ arm, welded boxed factory LCA's, panhard rod, Lakewood drag shocks up front, what I think is a 3800 stall (Coan), no sway bars, nitrous car.

28X8.5 M&H race master ET street type tire, no power brakes, no trans brake, skinnies.

Have a slip from the previous owner that has a 1.6 60 foot time. Would noot hook on the bottle and I think hazed them on the motor.

Car now has same size tire but its a MT ET street, lighter wheels, double adjustable LCA's with rod ends, QA1 adjustable drag shocks out back, has LCA brackets waitning to go in.

On the street I can get the car spun up to about 2300-2500RPM and the car hooks on street air pressure and cold tires.

Next I am going with AFCO coil overs all around, adjustable TQ arm, weld in rear drag sway bar, Neil Chance stall, trans brake all after more motor work and speay like a 300 shot out of the hole.

My last car pulled like a 2.1 out of the hole (ran a 13.81 that run) and this car would spank that car out of th ehole on the motor.

Going to do some 60 foot runs when it warms up on the motor. I am hoping for close to a 1.6 but nothing faster on the motor and foot brake.
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Originally Posted by Goober79
What Suspension mods do you guys have and what are you guys launching at(Please state stall speed and TC Manufacturer, and also tires;whether or not you use skinnies, DR's, slicks, or if your just using street tires)? Thanks guys!
HAL QA1 R-Series Front Shocks (12 pos)
HAL QA1 F-Series Rear Shocks (12 pos)
HAL QA1 300lbs Front Springs
Tubular Lower Control Arms
Spohn Adjustable Torque Arm w/ loop
Spohn Pro-Series Rear Drag Sway Bar
BMR weld-in LCA Relocation Brackets (middle hole)
Pirate Motorsports weld-in sub frame connectors

Yank SS4000 Torque Converter
Weld Prostar 15x8; Mickey Thompson ET Street Radials

Launching off the footbrake slightly above idle (to take the slack out of the drivetrain).

1.588 has been my best 60ft so far. Full-weight car

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I have full factory suspension minus front sway bar and strut tower. Yank SS4k stall 3.73 gears stock 16" snowflake tires with 26x11.5 ET street (slick type) I usually go from right over 1k and just give it the law and it pulls low 1.6 60's. Occasionally I will stall it real high 3kish but that has only lead to high 1.6 60's.
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Mods below. 11.42 @ 116.24 with a 1.47 60ft. That was my best but found my tune was off and running way too rich. I launch off of a 4,000rpm foot brake, and those times were with a 3100 raceweight. It should be 11.0-10.90 in the next few weeks.


PA Racing chrome moly k-member
PA Racing chrome moly upper & lower a-arms
UMI subframe connectors
UMI chrome moly trans mounted torque arm
Spohn lower control arm relocation brackets
Pavlock aluminum lower control arms
Pavlock aluminum panhard rod
Spohn chrome moly 1" rear sway bar
QA1 "R" front drag shocks w/ 275lb drag springs
Competition Engineering rear drag shocks w/ stock, cut springs
Lakewood driveshaft safety loop
15x4 Centerline Convo Pros w/ 26x4.5x15 Mickey Thompson ET Fronts
15x7.5 Centerline Convo Pros w/ 26x8.5x15 Mickey Thompson ET Drag Slicks
Stage 4 FLT 4l60e transmission
Yank Pro Thruster 4400 stall torque converter
LS2 flexplate
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Originally Posted by Goober79
What Suspension mods do you guys have and what are you guys launching at(Please state stall speed and TC Manufacturer, and also tires;whether or not you use skinnies, DR's, slicks, or if your just using street tires)? Thanks guys!
qa1 drag shocks
bmr rear drag bar
bmr lca
bmr torque arm


launch at 5500 on the tbrake
5200 stall Ati 8 inch
26x10x15 et drags on prostars
15x26x3.5 mt fronts on convopros(for now)

best 60ft is 1.47 but thats with a dead hook with only 9psi
I am thinking if I add more air I can get that to 1.45 or so (3450 race weight)
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Eibach Pro drop springs with stock shocks. No front sway bar. Stock rear sway bar. Lakewood poly/poly control arms. Adj. panhard bar. Spohn adj. chassis mounted TA, that ties into a KBDD subframe. Yank SS3600. Bogart wheels with skinnies up front and MT 275/50/15 street radials in back. Running 22lbs. hot and dead hooks on a unprepped track every time. Very low 1.6xs NA.

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BMR Trak Pak
BMR chrome moly LCAs
BMR SFCs
BMR chrome moly panhard rod
stock shocks
stock springs
15x4 Bogart D10
15x9.75 Bogart D10
MT ET fronts
MT 275/50/15 ET street radial 18 psi

Circle D 3600, as high as it can go w/o moving on the footbrake


best is a 1.575




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