10secgoal said:6cyl springs, 90/10's,roller perches. Landrum springs out back with adjustable shocks and home made caltracs. Up until I moved back out here, my traction was perfect. Car didn't squat, it pivoted on the back tires, front tires barely lifted. And it came out of the hole square everytime. I only used 26's at the time. Adding this made it worse.
Not gonna argue that a 4-link is a better setup, but there are leaf spring cars that see 8s.thehueypilot said:Hey 10secgoal.......welcome to my world of poor traction. I retired my car and I'm in search of a late model Mustang w/o the leaf spring setup! I think that much HP/TQ needs a 4 link set up. If your traction is that sensitive, the changing track conditions are going to give you fits if you are trying to dial in consistency.
jasonn said:Try some BETTER adj. shocks. I had the cheap summit ones at first. Never could get it to hook. Bought some of the adj. Ranchos for the rear and now it hooks pretty good. Was lifting both front wheels about 8 inches (actually have it on video to prove) Couldn't believe shocks could help that much but they do. AWESOME times!!Oh the 28 inch tires helped quite a bit also. What tires you runnin??
7.09@104. 1.83 60ft. i did get 105mph on my 1st pass.10secgoal said:How low did you get the 1/8 mi times, even with the carb trouble ? The M/T didn't break loose ?
Battery is in the trunk. But it's on the wrong side. I had the bottle first, and put it on the driver side. Then later came the battery. There is a switch. I'm gonna assume it's the compression that changes. I had some old 50/50 lakewoods and the rear would squat real back, max out the leafs, and throw it back in the air. this would happen a couple of times out of the holw each time until I got the adjustables. How much preload are you putting in them ? What hole are you on ?jasonn said:I went with the 9000's. They are adjustable 9ways. Actually I'm not sure to what stiff means on the summit, comp eng., shocks means. Does that mean they are stiff on the compression or rebound? I know with the rachos, I have them adjusted on the lowest number setting to allow the rear to rise as fast as it can to better plant the tires. Do you have the batt in the trunk?? With a cutoff switch?
i left at 1,000rpm and just rolled into it. it still stumbled, but not too bad. to be honest, i was hoping for atleast 110mph. oh well, we'll see what this year brings.10secgoal said:Jesus Paul. That's good for at least mid 6's. Gonna do something about it ?Haha, that's without the brake too isn't it ?
10secgoal said:Battery is in the trunk. But it's on the wrong side. I had the bottle first, and put it on the driver side. Then later came the battery. There is a switch. I'm gonna assume it's the compression that changes. I had some old 50/50 lakewoods and the rear would squat real back, max out the leafs, and throw it back in the air. this would happen a couple of times out of the holw each time until I got the adjustables. How much preload are you putting in them ? What hole are you on ?
Jesus Paul. That's good for at least mid 6's. Gonna do something about it ?Haha, that's without the brake too isn't it ?
Not if the switch breaks the main circuit somewhere, as if it were on the ground wire.jasonn said:Everybody told me to wire the alt. wire to the bat + side but if you do that then the alt will be charging and running the system even when you turn the switch?
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