1sicklsx

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Ok so here's my delema... I love drag racing and road/autox racing and want to have a car that can perform very well at both; what should I do with my suspension setup? I don't want to have a setup that does nothing by mixing wrong parts! Suspension parts I have on the car so far are: strut tower brace, rear lca's (soon to be swapped for adj. and rod ended), relocated adj. torque arm, tunnel brace w/driveshaft saftey loop, & 3 point sfc's.

Turnin20s

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You can't really have a suspension that does both really well. If your looking into auto x set the car up for that and make due with a worse launch. Building a drag suspension and expecting it to handle is just a bad idea IMO

BMR Sales2

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It would honestly be very hard to do what you want to do, you are probably going to end up with a car that is okay drag-wise and okay handling-wise. I always try to get people to really lean one way or the other that way the suspension will perform to their expectations.

1sicklsx

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Ok so if I build for auto-x how badly would my drag times suffer? Honestly I'm at the drag strip a lot more often then a road course! Also I guess I would lean to the autox side cuz currently its my dd and I'm always takin corners pretty hard! God forbid I get near a canyon to do some carving! Lol

lees02WS6

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How often do you drive on the street vs either of those other things?

aQuickLS1

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I would give one of the suspension sponsors a call and discuss your options. Otherwise lean more to drag or auto-x like stated above.

1sicklsx

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My car is my daily driver. But I tend to use the street as a road course! (When safe enough)

lees02WS6

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It would seem to me to be inadvisable to build a suspension around a goal that is a small percentage of your actual driving.

Drag racing setups will be good at drag racing. An autox suspension will be useful on the street or the track. I'd state to the vendor this is your daily driver.

Sam Strano

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EXACTLY. Drag cars are very specific. Autox cars while meant to handle do so on @ real world speeds, around corners that you could well see on the street. As for launching the car... well getting power down out of corners is important for a good autox car as well and there are lots of folks on setups I've done that can crack of 1.6's no problem on some drag radials with the "handling" suspension in place. Hell I can do 1.9's on completely unprepped surfaces (no VHT, nothing) on Hoosier A6 AX tires (not drag radials)... for comparison AWD cars will be in the 1.7-low 1.8 range for 60's on those same surfaces and tires.

1sicklsx

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Are 1.6/1.7 on drag radials about the limit for a "handeling" setup? In my current setup I'm gettin 1:8 60' and that's on bfg kdw2 and not launching hard

Sam Strano

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Hard to say... I mean 1.8 on street tires is pretty good and better than I've seen some do on drag radials and "drag parts". I've got customers on Koni's in the 1.5's on stock springs.

99firehawk

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Holey F*&K! Id love for you to show me how to do that. Whats the secret?

02Z28LS1

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if you like doing both drag racing and road race/auto-x, decide which one is more important for you, and set up the car that way.

if you go the drag racing route, forget about handling....it may be able to be driven to/from the track, and even as a daily driver (depending on how far down the rabbit hole you go), but i wouldn't even consider taking it to a road race/auto-x event.

if you set it up for road race/auto-x, you can still use it as a daily driver with no issues (aside from maybe some harshness & road noise, depending on your setup), but it will be mediocre at best in drag racing.

if you want both, get a 2nd car and set one up for each.