Talk about a sleeper............way cool man!

A front drive axle & transfer case would help the weight issue some Looks like good fun

Has anybody had luck by shiffening the front shocks, seems logical that it would reduce the rate of "free" body rise and the hit would see at least some of the unsprung weight.

I don't believe I've ever had a car where I actually had "too much" weight transfer

Thanks!

UPDATE

Cranked the Ranchos up and replaced the completely dead front shocks with a set of KYB gas-a-justs and made a couple quick test hits and it's definitely going in the right direction.

Rocky is heading up to the Daurity Boys shop up the road about 2 hrs in the AM, Stephen's gonna look it over plus make the mods to the 1 7/8" TTI headers to get them to fit. I figure the little 1 5/8" are costing me ~30-40hp up top plus if they kill just a little bottom end that should hopefully help with the launch too. If you saw the way the 1 5/8's fit you'd be hard pressed to want to change them too but I reckon it's time to make the change.

Stephen mentioned maybe adding 20 lbs to the nose, I got to thinking I have a very large oil cooler that is OEM for a freightliner truck, figure Stephen can fab me up some cool brackets to make it fit, figure if I'm gonna add some weight it might as well do me some good in the process

Thanks for all the support guys, the 1.5-ish 60' are coming and the 6 second 1/8ths and 10 second quarters will come right along with them.

So did Chips buddy in the Camaro know what the Rocky had in it or did he look over and see the wheelie and wonder WTH was up with that thing?
Glad you're having fun with it, Bobby. That's all that matters.

Tim

Well the Rocky is over at the Daurity's shop, and I got to spend a couple hours with Stephen an Mike and I had a great time, the Daurity's are awesome, wonderful people, and I thank them so much for their gracious hospitality.

Looking forward to letting Stephen get some bigger headers on the 414 and help with tweaking the launch. The KYBs do seem to be helping, the initial hit still feels instantaneous, but I can already tell the nose can't get quite as much of a 'running start' on lifting the unsprung weight as before.

Oh yeah, I got the tour of both the 'North 90' and the 'South 40'.....I got no more use for Disney Land after that!

I told Mike I felt like a "blind Dog in a Meat Locker!!"

Stephen and me are toying with getting the launch dialed in and set on a 2 step.... And the bigger headers are gonna help a bunch (kill some bottom and add some top). Stephen will figure out where to reroute that #8 TTI 1 7/8 tube to get around the T-bar and I'm good to go.