dodgestang
Active Member
none67 said:hell lets see a pic of your car and lets make a few opinions about it. i'm just saying that a lot of guys around here act like morons when they see somthing they don't like.. as for it not hooking, how the hell do u know what his setup is?
Make fun all you want...I am a firm beleiver in doing want you want with your car. I run 255s in the rear and 235s in the front. I would love to get 275s in there but it aint going to happen in my application with the car lowered and a 5 leaf, KYB shock rear with under riders.
However.....looking at JUST the picture posted 2 facts are evident....the tires are past the sheet metal and the rear shackels are high lift shackels. The standard use of jack shackles is to prop up sagging rear springs. They do not help much in compression though so any car with jacker shackels gets a lot of bounce...so MANY times this situation is resolved through the addition of air or coil over shocks which takes some or all of the work off the springs depending on how much air is in them. When it comes to hooking to apply maximum forward HP to the wheels it is commonly accepted that there needs to be some amount of wieght transfer as the car goes from its stopped to moving condition. This type of suspension that is designed primiarly to keep the rear of the car in the air and off the tires does not allow for good transfer during the launching process resulting in loss of traction. Evident in the video linked in the sig you can see the car gets a LOT of tire spin. In the video did not appear to have the 275 it has now which would contribute to poor traction if there is a high HP application, however as you watch the car accelerate you will notice there is virtually no lift on the front end or similar 'squating' of the rear giving more evidence that a high shackle air shock suspension is in use.
I will bet Dinner that the car would hook better and handle all around better with new 5 leafs, 245s, and under rider bars.