I would lose the front swaybar, add 90/10's, front moroso springs, I got a stock rear swaybar with boxed lowers and adjustable uppers, with a Mosier rearend which the upper arms ar mounted higher. With a stock rear end you would have to get no hop bars to raise the height of the upper control arms. Right now I would weld a piece of 3/16 plate on the lower trailing arm front bracket and angle it to the frame rail and weld it there or you might break that mount off on a hard launch. I was told to do that in the beginning so I never have broken one yet.
Whenever I went to the track, when we had a track here :af: I would remove the front sway bar and put a set of 90/10s on the front. I don't have a race car and don't want to make it one so the Hotchkis springs will remain. It still helped get the nose up out of the hole, though. Another thing I did years ago was to remove the upper bump stop, cut it down to about 1/2" thick and put it back in which allowed the front end to come up higher. Every little bit helps. I tried hop stop bars and hated them so I took them back off. That's probably just me. Some guys seem to like them, others don't.
I havn't tried the hop bars but I will need them on the next build. What did you not like about them?
I think the first thing I should point out is that my car is a street car that I take to the track from time to time just to have some fun so this may very well not be an issue for you, but in my case they were a real nuisance on the street because everytime you step on the gas the a$$ end of the car lifts up. At the track I saw no improvement in traction, but my car only runs in the 8.40s, so since I wasn't seeing any real benefit from them, off they came. I have read that they are more beneficial to faster cars, tough. Might be an interesting question worth posting in a separate thread :idea2:
Another new best tonight. It had more in it but the rain came. 10.44 @ 129. Here is a video and timeslip: [video=youtube;Byxv_gOszXw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byxv_gOszXw&list=UUL-E9o5N7zvUaltg8ZP9NOQ&index=1[/video]
Thanx. It startled me a bit when the steering wheel twitched as the wheels came up and down. Or wheel probably in this case. You can't tell in the low resolution video, but it is twisting pretty good. I need an anti-roll bar in the back.
I just have to find one that will work on the track, but is not too harsh for the street. ---------- Post added at 11:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:33 AM ---------- Maybe not as twisted as it felt at all. Here is a low resolution preview pic from Devastation Motorsports.
I bet my turbo car would like a progressive hit off the line and have the nitrous shut off when the boost hits 10 PSI... Or I could just do a 100 shot and leave it on the whole time, then I would have a great intercooler (nitrous comes out COLD) and run quicker... I will get it running 100% first but I will run the juce as well eventually.
I have seen some turbo guys run just a small 50 hit to get spooled up and cool mix with great results.
Did not mean to thread jack but yes the 231 CID GNs love a 50 shot, I figuer my 355 should like a 100 shot under boost.
I have the stock swaybar and bags. I run 16-20 in the right and 5-10 in the left and it pulls the front end up pretty even.
It's the car I built and race but not mine. I'm in the process of building my own. I used to race a 66 special that I built and owned and got it down to a 10.75 with a stock 455 like I run in that GS. I always had air bags and swaybar. When that car pulled that big wheelie I had 200 lbs in the trunk trying to slow it down to 11.0 for the index class that I was running that night. I didn't have my son with me taking video and luckily someone was in the stands taking pics and said he liked that car. Found out later he worked with Todd the owner and he got the pic from him. If you go to youtube and put in Big Butz Racing you can see videos of that car running. There might also be a pic of my off white 66 Buick Special on there. If you go to my photo album there might be a full size pic of that launch.
