Corner weights, SS springs, street driving, what works well?
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I put SS springs on my 65 Dart street car, and finally got it scaled. I was surprised to see the hi bias, left front/ right rear. Lf 911 rf 832 Lr 646 rr 726 The car is level at these weights, no driver. My question is, how much bias can be in the corner weights and still produce decent street manners? I can remove most, but the passenger side of the car sits over an inch higher than the drivers side, and that is before i put my 265 in the seat!
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Re: Corner weights, SS springs, street driving, what works well?
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You should scale it with you in the car unless you are remote driving it. You may be surprised at how much of your weight goes to rear of car depending on seat location (which I suspect is a ways from the steering wheel).
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Re: Corner weights, SS springs, street driving, what works well?
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Greg.. take the car to a good spring shop and have them lower the rear and keep it level.. you want to be there because you will be getting in and out of the seat.. how far does it need to be lowered to be just lower than the front.. take measurement so you get it right.. I did this on my 69 Valiant.. I ended up lowering the front end by 1/2" to get what I wanted
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Re: Corner weights, SS springs, street driving, what works well?
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I run the 3400 lb SS springs on my 63. I had to do the same thing Topside did as on most cars I put SS springs on they usually sit a bit un-level and I have to either raise or lower the torsion bars to even the car out. I had to do it on my 63. I have never scaled the car but it goes nice and straight at the track and drives just fine on the street. The only thing I notice is the car lifts the left front more then the right front on launch but it goes nice and straight. Ron
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Re: Corner weights, SS springs, street driving, what works well?
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Greg.. take the car to a good spring shop and have them lower the rear and keep it level.. you want to be there because you will be getting in and out of the seat.. how far does it need to be lowered to be just lower than the front.. take measurement so you get it right.. I did this on my 69 Valiant.. I ended up lowering the front end by 1/2" to get what I wanted Mike, ride height in back is pretty much where it has to be for tire clearance at this point. If I do anything with the back, it may need one step down in SS spring weight. Then I can see if I want to mess with the back more.
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