urgent help excessive wheelstand

I went to the track today and had my best ever 9.21 at 147. The car has excessive wheel standing issues. It is lifting about 3 1/2 to 4ft for about 150-175 ft out. I tried tightening the front shocks but it didn't seem to help. It is a Cal Trac car with QA1's on all four corners. My friend shot a video and front tire is not turning at all. This is telling me that the car is just yanking the tires not pushing through beams. My Cal Trac is in the middle hole in the front. Will shock adjustments front back settle this thing down?

thanks

Mike

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Whats the rear shock setting... also go up on the rear
tire pressure so you get a little slippage plus that
gets you up on the tire which will net a better ET...
when you find the right pressure you will vary it about
1/8 to a 1/4 psi for different track conditions

Would love to see the vid

Do you run wheelie bars? You may need to. More weight on the nose may be needed as well, considering you can carry the fronts in the air that far.
I know little about caltracs, but can say this; if you have a car set up with the I C too low, it can aggravate wheelstands. the reason is with an I C below the neutral line it wants to instantly drop the rear and lift the front. You say the front tires don't turn, that was my clue.

I made a major change in my car, going from 50/50 to 53front/47rear weight distribution and the car settled right down and allowed the wheelie bars to control the wheel stands without unloading the back tires.
The main thing about moving that much weight is you may need to hit the tire harder to achieve weight transfer, but you will have enough torque to maintain traction so the car won't care how much weight is moved forward.

Typical approaches:
- more front end weight
- stiffer extension on front shocks
- restrict front end travel (I use this to tune for track/weather)
- wheelie bars

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Typical approaches:
- more front end weight
- stiffer extension on front shocks
- restrict front end travel (I use this to tune for track/weather)
- wheelie bars

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What 60 ft. were u getting?