Suspension affecting launching.
Suspension affecting launching. My car is lowered...about 2.5 inches or more from stock height.
I went to the track this weekend with headers, and a tune, and lid, with drag radials
r/t .270
60' 2.003
330 5.6
1/8th 8.504
mph 85.87
It felt like the car bogged off the line...was screaming on the top end but just didn't jump like I thought it would...at first I thought it was the drag radials making it bog from dead hooking, or the stock stall just not working for me...but then I though...what about suspension.
A budy's of mines car ran a 8.3 with the same mods but he has stock suspension and the weather was a tad better than it was this weekend.
Would I be faster going back to stock height? Or should I just go aftermarket springs now anyways.
I went to the track this weekend with headers, and a tune, and lid, with drag radials
r/t .270
60' 2.003
330 5.6
1/8th 8.504
mph 85.87
It felt like the car bogged off the line...was screaming on the top end but just didn't jump like I thought it would...at first I thought it was the drag radials making it bog from dead hooking, or the stock stall just not working for me...but then I though...what about suspension.
A budy's of mines car ran a 8.3 with the same mods but he has stock suspension and the weather was a tad better than it was this weekend.
Would I be faster going back to stock height? Or should I just go aftermarket springs now anyways.
First of all what kind of springs are you using to get that 2.5" drop, most companies springs run from 1"-1.5" drop? You can get a drag car to work with lowering springs you just have to have the other suspension pieces to make it work. I would look into to doing a set of lower control arm relocation brackets becasue they will help correct the geometry issues you are going to be having with that low of a drop. Secondly I would loo into a good set of drag shocks front and rear. Since the car is so low in the front it is going to have a hard time transferring weight so a good set of drag shock (preferably Strange) would definitely help out. Also if you haven't taken the front sway bar off yet than I would definitely do that because it will help with weight transfer and is cheap and easy to do.
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What kind of drag radials are you running? It would honestly be easier if you were stock height or even something closer to 1"-1.5". We have customers using our lowering springs and cutting mid 1.3 60ft times, but they were well setup suspsensions with the correct supporting mods.
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It honestly doesn't look like it has been lowered 2.5", if you could take a measurement front and rear on a somewhat level ground from the ground to center of wheel well I can see how much it is really lowered of some baseline numbers I have here.
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From: Brandon, MS
I swapped my suspension out and noticed a different launch, play with it, they are all made different and do make a difference. Oh, btw, its sitting gangsta as they used to say, like mine was before the swap.