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We've had Caltracs for many years. They work well for us but remember to include the front set up in the equation. We mounted the shocks with the body at the bottom, makes adjusting the extension a pain on an E body but do able. Starting from scratch I would look to mounting the shock in front of the axle, it will help control axle rotation better.
What H/P, Tq, weight are you at? and what tyre, 'box and rear ratio are you using?
Edit: Bars are on the bottom hole here too.

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Typically, use the front mount hole that puts the bar close to parallel w/ the ground.

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We've had Caltracs for many years. They work well for us but remember to include the front set up in the equation. We mounted the shocks with the body at the bottom, makes adjusting the extension a pain on an E body but do able. Starting from scratch I would look to mounting the shock in front of the axle, it will help control axle rotation better.
What H/P, Tq, weight are you at? and what tyre, 'box and rear ratio are you using?
Edit: Bars are on the bottom hole here too.

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Ill just see what way the shocks mounts the best.. Ive seen pics of the shocks mounted infront of the axel, at the moment I feel that a little overkill for my combo. Im not gonna break any records with my car. I race in a Streetcar class with a 9.99sec break out time. My best so far is [Email]10.74@200mph[/Email], 1.57sec 60ft time. SS springs, Mopar DR shocks... In other words, nothing special.. Front end loose, I have the 5" of travel, poly bushings, 90/10 cheap Energy Suspension shocks.. Planing on adding Afco DA shocks in the front to..

My 496cid makes 770Hp, 670clb-ft tq. Weight is something like 3750lbs. Hoosier QTP 29x11.5-15, 727 from CRT and 4.56 ratio. Clicking 6900Rpm at the finnish line. May change the rearend ratio to 4.10 or 4.30, that way I could use 28" tires and also get the car to sit a bit lower in the rear.

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Typically, use the front mount hole that puts the bar close to parallel w/ the ground.

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OK, Ill mount the transfer link according to Calvert instructions and go from there..

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I was curious to see how much these help you as I run just SS springs and have run 10.76 @ 124.49 with a 1.50 sixty. I was looking at your et and mph and think the 200 mph with the 10.74 ET is wrong ?? Curious what your mph is with the 10.70 et's. Ron

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I was curious to see how much these help you as I run just SS springs and have run 10.76 @ 124.49 with a 1.50 sixty. I was looking at your et and mph and think the 200 mph with the 10.74 ET is wrong ?? Curious what your mph is with the 10.70 et's. Ron

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Sorry, its 200KPH, not MPH, so 120Mph for you colonials on that side of the ocean...

And just for your info, I have never really succeeded to run the car with out some issue that messed up my race weekend. That 10.74 run was followed with a 10.90 run with a messed up transmission (lost 1st gear). That run ended season 2013 with a trans failure. Then in 2014 I managed to mess up one of the front wheels just a day before the first race weekend.. Then I broke my wrist (motorbike accident) and missed out on the two following race weekends. 3 messed up rockers put an end to the 2nd to last race weekend.. Last but not least, come last race weekend got an oil leak, more or less like the Exxon Valdes.. So season 2014 was a

Ive ownded the Charger since 2003 and I have pushed that MF.... car more than actually driven it under its own power.. so, I have never found out what it could/can run... I have counted that I have in total 9 runs on the car, of those runs about 4-5 something happend... What I really should do, if I was smart, is to sell the car, tools and even the garage and start playing Golf or something, car racing does not seem to be working out for me...

Have a
/Tom

PS. Just to let you know. During the years Ive owned the Charger I have "destroyed" one 440 engine, got close to destroying a 426 Hemi, messed up and rebuilt the 727 trans two times, as I write this, its waiting on its 3rd rebuild (In 2013 I bought a CRT trans that seems to hold up)... Burned 3 starters, busted up converter ringgears, droped a muffler on my head and got to wisit the ER with a concussion, had more carburetor fires than I care to remember (tried to run the Hemi on E85 when E85 first came out on the market)...etc...etc.... Its a never ending struggle, I cant seem to win, the car is just posessed. I thought of having a Priest come and sprinkle Holy water on it, but thought better of it, my guess is that the car would just burst into flames....

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PS. Just to let you know. During the years Ive owned the Charger I have "destroyed" one 440 engine, got close to destroying a 426 Hemi, messed up and rebuilt the 727 trans two times, as I write this, its waiting on its 3rd rebuild (In 2013 I bought a CRT trans that seems to hold up)... Burned 3 starters, busted up converter ringgears, droped a muffler on my head and got to wisit the ER with a concussion, had more carburetor fires than I care to remember (tried to run the Hemi on E85 when E85 first came out on the market)...etc...etc.... Its a never ending struggle, I cant seem to win, the car is just posessed. I thought of having a Priest come and sprinkle Holy water on it, but thought better of it, my guess is that the car would just burst into flames....

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Do NOT sell the car or give up.
Make sure you continue to update us.
Recount your experiences and thoughts on here as I love to read about your feelings, they are HILARIOUS! No disrespect or ill-intent, but your wording is just too funny.
Good Luck.

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Not that I am anybody but here is my for what it's worth . My shock's are on the same as yours . (some will say they are on wrong but afco's can be mounted either way ) My shock's are about that close to the bumpers also . I have the cal's in the bottom hole with a 1/16 gap on the bar's . I have the shock's on the stiff side.(don't remember how many click )
I run a 28x10.5 stiff slick. Foot braking.

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I thought about this If my ride was a racecar only deal, I would not worry, Id just drive it, but my ride is also a streetcar, that makes me worry about messing up the shocks, because the roads over here are what they are and it probably would not take long untill the shocks got messed up because of bottoming out to hard...

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Being that your on the other side of the pond it might be cheaper if you lower the bottom stud 1"

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I thought about this to. Problem then is this project will escalate quickly. The "body" of the shock, both the lower and upper part of it, is so wide that it would begin to interfere with/hit the bracket (lower part of shockbody is close already to the bracket). Welding a pice to the bracket (make it lower) would not work out that good because of how the shock is built. Thought about adding something, like a 1" spacer between the spring and lower bracket. That would be and easy solution. The problem is doing that, it would also change the transfer link angle and the tranfer link pipe might also end up to short

I hope to sell the shocks to someone, already made a 4 sale add on them.. I dont really like to engineer my way out of a problem, when the problem can easily be corrected by just getting the correct part.

-Any one out there have any idea on how to measure a correct shock extension hight, when running Calvert rear springs

Thanks
/Tom

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I remounted my afcos vertical in front of the axle and they were too short, so i extended the lower mounting down an inch and gusseted it. When they were in the same position as yours, i had a similar amount of travel to you and it worked fine, the rubber bumpers dont last five minutes though.
Mick

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Did you drive your ride on the street to when you had the shocks in the same position as I have them now???

-You wouldnt have a picture on how the brackets and front mounted shock look? Id like to see how you did this.

Thanks!
/Tom