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why is my car hooking WORSE?!

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mayer5oh

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i just installed a set of x2c motorsports boxer st upr and lwr control arms, poly rear bushings, and lakewood 70/30 and 50/50 shocks. i feel like my car gets worse traction now, can anybody pleeeeeeeeease help me?
 
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xxxCadillacxxx

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Feels is a very inaccurate gauge. You need some numbers.
Are you spining at all?
 
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Tires?
 

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Not a bad run. The sixty foot says you need tires, like Drag Radials.

The poly bushings may just be letting the car hit the tires harder, and it spins them where it previously didn't.
 

90mustangGT

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rd said:
The poly bushings may just be letting the car hit the tires harder, and it spins them where it previously didn't.
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That could be part of it. Maby you need to re-learn how to launch it?
 
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i have sumitomo htr+ tires, they have worked well for me. thing is not i cant launch near as high and its also hopping a little and when it isnt hopping it just spins like hell, i mean i only have 259 at the wheels. havent gotten a chance to get back to the track since the suspension "upgrades" since some random saturn ran into my car...
 

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Stickier tires would def. benefit your control arms, how much touque did you dyno? Also what kind of shape is your traction Lock in, any one tire fire action? You really won't be able to tell a diffrence in traction until you hit the track again.
 

90mustangGT

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You know, I've been getting the same crap and I have done alot. I figured it was because the moroso rear springs sit so freaking high and I have the front so low. I'm going to have to adjust the front way up when I go to the track.
 
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Those springs will settle alot in the coming months. Granted I do have about 250lbs in my trunk, but my car sat level a few months ago, now it is squating in the rear. I will try to take some pics for you soon with the junk out of my trunk.

My rear end is very stiff with the moroso springs. I cant imagine it with some coils cut off. Did you cut them at all? I can hardly budge the rear of my car when pushing down on it.
 

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jerry beach said:
Those springs will settle alot in the coming months. Granted I do have about 250lbs in my trunk, but my car sat level a few months ago, now it is squating in the rear. I will try to take some pics for you soon with the junk out of my trunk.

My rear end is very stiff with the moroso springs. I cant imagine it with some coils cut off. Did you cut them at all? I can hardly budge the rear of my car when pushing down on it.
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They are firm, in the rear and drag springs are suposed to because squat is not good for traction. I don't think you can cut that type of spring.
 
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