Posted By: mopar dave
cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/27/15 08:36 PM
anyone here using cal-tracs and launching off transbrake? I know john calvert doesn't recommend it, but i'm curious if anyone is making it work.
cal-tracs and transbrakes
Posted By: StealthWedge67
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/27/15 09:03 PM
I think there are plenty of guys using this setup. Dustin Ward, AKA: triplethreat, has cal-tracs and a brake on his dart, and has been deadly with it.
Just thinking in my mind of how the Cal-Trac setup works, I would think it would work pretty well, because the harder you hit it, the more its gonna plant the tire. (???).
Just thinking in my mind of how the Cal-Trac setup works, I would think it would work pretty well, because the harder you hit it, the more its gonna plant the tire. (???).
Posted By: B3422W5
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/27/15 09:15 PM
Quote:
anyone here using cal-tracs and launching off transbrake? I know john calvert doesn't recommend it, but i'm curious if anyone is making it work.
I know S/S springs worked excellent for me with a brake, I would sure hope a more high dollar setup would
Posted By: johnnycuda
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/27/15 10:10 PM
We suggest using a adjustable rear shock, and setting the rebound side to one of the lightest settings, on our 9-way adjustable shock, we say to use between 1 and 3, one being the lightest setting.
Posted By: Thumperdart
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/27/15 11:04 PM
Do you know when/if the single adj. ft.`s are coming out?
Posted By: johnnycuda
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/27/15 11:12 PM
Hey Dom, the front adjustables are on hold for now, back in R&D, John wasn't happy with the performance of the samples he had had made. 
Posted By: Thumperdart
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/27/15 11:17 PM
Good 2 know................. 
Posted By: racerx
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/28/15 03:35 AM
Quote:I ran a T/B with SS spring before going to ladder bars and the car twisted to the point that a bubby of mine thought the rear window were going to popQuote:
anyone here using cal-tracs and launching off transbrake? I know john calvert doesn't recommend it, but i'm curious if anyone is making it work.
I know S/S springs worked excellent for me with a brake, I would sure hope a more high dollar setup would
Posted By: dvw
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/28/15 04:34 AM
Dizusters turbo car runs trans brake, Cal Tracks and radials. Good shocks are the key. Going to Menser valved Afco's was worth 2 tenths in 60 ft. Not to mention that it is very consistent.
Doug
Doug
Posted By: B3422W5
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/28/15 04:42 AM
Quote:Quote:I ran a T/B with SS spring before going to ladder bars and the car twisted to the point that a bubby of mine thought the rear window were going to popQuote:
anyone here using cal-tracs and launching off transbrake? I know john calvert doesn't recommend it, but i'm curious if anyone is making it work.
I know S/S springs worked excellent for me with a brake, I would sure hope a more high dollar setup would
Put a brake in my 3350 pound Duster in 2003 running 9's sold the car in 2011, still has the brake in it with new owner, is straight as an arrow, and has had hundreds of passes put on it during that time. Plenty of guys on here have seen/ know the car.
If your car was twisting up you had/ have something going on with the cage/ interconnection of the chassis/ frame connectors.
Posted By: mopar dave
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/28/15 04:49 AM
ok, thanks and good to know its a combo that can work. john calvert told me that the cal-tracs need to be preloaded before launch. so I wired the 2 step to a micro switch on my footbrake. I may just rewired back to the transbrake and turn it up.
Posted By: B3422W5
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/28/15 04:59 AM
Quote:
ok, thanks and good to know its a combo that can work. john calvert told me that the cal-tracs need to be preloaded before launch. so I wired the 2 step to a micro switch on my footbrake. I may just rewired back to the transbrake and turn it up.
What were you using before the caltracs?
Posted By: mopar dave
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/28/15 05:00 AM
ss springs and footbrake. that was years ago.
Posted By: B3422W5
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/28/15 05:05 AM
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ss springs and footbrake. that was years ago.
At the ET you are shooting for, the S/S springs you had would have worked fine, well into the 9's easily. If the car hooks, the ET difference won't amount to anything.
Posted By: mopar dave
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/28/15 05:39 AM
Yeah I know. Too bad I figured that out after I bought the Cal tracs. I used to talk to a guy on another forum that had a duster with ss springs in the very low 9s.
Posted By: racerx
Re: cal-tracs and transbrakes - 02/28/15 05:55 AM
Quote:It's been so long ago can't remember if it was cage or just a roll barQuote:Quote:I ran a T/B with SS spring before going to ladder bars and the car twisted to the point that a bubby of mine thought the rear window were going to popQuote:
anyone here using cal-tracs and launching off transbrake? I know john calvert doesn't recommend it, but i'm curious if anyone is making it work.
I know S/S springs worked excellent for me with a brake, I would sure hope a more high dollar setup would
Put a brake in my 3350 pound Duster in 2003 running 9's sold the car in 2011, still has the brake in it with new owner, is straight as an arrow, and has had hundreds of passes put on it during that time. Plenty of guys on here have seen/ know the car.
If your car was twisting up you had/ have something going on with the cage/ interconnection of the chassis/ frame connectors.
but I do remember it having a set of stock truck shocks...Lol