Will this car leave straight? Corner weights--

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with the correct weight in the drivers seat, you'll need 30 to 50 lbs. heavier on the right rear to get it to go straight. i think with your current weight you'll go to the right.

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30-50 pounds on right rear is very similar to 30-50 pounds heavier on left front

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I expect it to go to the right with those weights, how
hard it will go right I cant say, but if its got a lot
of torque it will go right harder than if it had lower
torque levels...... and this is assuming you did the
weights with the driver in the seat and at race weight

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car needs more weight on the right rear because it wants to drive to the right.by putting more weight on the right will get it to go straight.
the front has nothing to do with driveability, you are just setting ride height with the front.as long as you get them close.

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Those #'s are with the driver in the seat. Do you think it will wheelstand? 505 w/Ebrock heads, 550ish cam, Team G intake, 1000 HP carb and Hooker fenderwell headers. The converter is a TA model J that flashes 5000/5200. The owner is worried about big wheelstands. I'm thinking it make have too much weight on the front.

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Its a big calculation to figure out if it will wheel
stand or not... but it is a math formula

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Well I have a calc. her by the keyboard. What's the formula Mike?

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I'll have to look it up.... in the Dave Morgan seminar
he has it on his hand out(thats what I have to find)

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Easiest formula would be to just start with ladder bar fronts in the upper most holes, and move down as traction dictates. If it wheelstands from that setting then gonna have to limit travel and work on shocks from there.

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theres more to it than that. if your in the upper most hole and start bringing that bar down,you'll need to reset your pinion angle.

if i were you i'd just put a little more preload on the RR and try it out and go from there.

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Helped scale a friends car today. 71 Dart 505BB, Dana w/4.10's, TF. It's a back-half ladder bar rear. 3045 lbs w driver. LF 918 RF 851 LR 641 RR 635. It's heavier than I would have expected. For a car with a glass front end. Do you think it will leave straight and drive straight with this setup? Jim

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These weights are very similar to other BB A body lader bar cars that I have owned and driven Cars go straight arrrow, so easy that a cave man can drive em All kidding asise those numbers are typical of a lot of BB A body ladder bar cars, go run it. the wheelie hieghts and distances will be determine by track conditions, tires, stall leaving the line and several other factors like front and rear shock adjustments and travel

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If it were mine I would add 20 or 30 pounds to the right rear this will make it leave strait and also pull some off the left front and even out the front end weights.

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exactly!

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He intends to run it as it is right now to start. I just wanted to be sure we were close enough. Didn't want to have to worry about him getting in the guardrail or the weeds. Jim

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i'd worry, i bet you go to the right. this ought to be interesting. especially if your on a marginal track.

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when we set up the weight in my car we set it up as even side to side in the rear as we could, car went right a little, added 30# preload to the right rear and the car has been on a rail ever since,,

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30-60 is the range for LB back half cars.....4 link cars 20-40 works good....if anti-roll is used...zero across the board.
BTW....aren't you glad you listened?...