Anyone interested in some shock tech discussion?

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That would be great

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Always want to learn more about anything that can help me win!

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I'm all ears.

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Don

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Just drag race shock tech?

Or road course and autocross tech also?

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This will be a thread on here so you will be able to ask any question you want. Obviously its not all drag racing on here so you will be able to throw out your road track stuff too.
Well it certainly looks like we have enough interest. My guy is liking the idea. He is on the road this week and we are gonna try to get this on here in the next couple weeks. He wants to do at least a week worth where he would check the thread several times a day to answer questions. Next step is making it happen. I'm on it

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Looks like we are going to get us some shock tech next week.
I think it should have a subject of something like "Lets talk shocks" or something like that?? Really dont care what it is so long as all my Moparts friends know where to look. My goal is to get something worthy of our tech archives. Stay tuned

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Looks like we are going to get us some shock tech next week.
I think it should have a subject of something like "Lets talk shocks" or something like that?? Really dont care what it is so long as all my Moparts friends know where to look. My goal is to get something worthy of our tech archives. Stay tuned

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Sounds great....... bring it on

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Sorry fellas, new user registrations were disabled last week. Hopefully we can get this going this week. I think we have some good content to get it started.

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rather than wait forever let him use your account then change the password afterwards

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Can't wait to learn some more about shock.

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learning not to do this would be a good start

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I have a ? my car rolls kind of hard to the right on the (stick car ) launch. would stiffining the shock setting on the right or left help. could i use a different spring rate on the r.h. to help ?

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it a ladder bar car single adj coil over set at l.h 3 clicks r.h.4 and no anti roll.

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On a ladder bar car if its leaning over to the right
something is flexing or bending... yes a anti roll
bar will cover it up

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it a ladder bar car single adj coil over set at l.h 3 clicks r.h.4 and no anti roll.

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On a ladder bar car if its leaning over to the right
something is flexing or bending... yes a anti roll
bar will cover it up

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I dont want to cover up. I dont see any bending or frame flexing . what area should i look. i was thinking a bad shock ?

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it a ladder bar car single adj coil over set at l.h 3 clicks r.h.4 and no anti roll.

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On a ladder bar car if its leaning over to the right
something is flexing or bending... yes a anti roll
bar will cover it up

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I dont want to cover up. I dont see any bending or frame flexing . what area should i look. i was thinking a bad shock ?

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The height of the front mount if too low will really aggravate body roll. My chassis is way overbuilt, and no flex, so that is not the problem. An anti roll will redirect the forces created and straighten you right out. I picked up .02 to .03 in 60 ft with the addition of my anti roll. Look at this before pic. The body roll got out of control when I went to the bottom hole in the ladderbar mount. My interpritation of what happens is with the bars so close to the neutral line the normal forces of body roll from engine torque have no counter acting force from the ladderbars, till body roll happens. Then the left bar being higher gains leverage, and the situation spirals out of control till the shocks or limiters take over. This all depends on how fast the car is. I have gone from 10.30s with this car to 8.70s, and the roll problem showed up when I hit the tires harder in the low nines. A stick car will hit pretty hard, so I am thinking it can start earlier.