suspention issues

car is a hand full,  , the first 200-300 ft its all over the track,drives great on top end at 122 mpg 10.90 car, look at the slow motion video , fast forward to 1:30 min, looks like the ass end of car is off the ground, thinking my junk air shocks are the issue now

https://vid22.photobucket.com/albums/b315/john8189/racecar_zpsbjf1hobt.mp4


https://vid22.photobucket.com/albums/b315/john8189/slow%20mo_zpswpzgklnq.mp4

The videos need to be a lot better.

The first scrunched-up "vertical video" clip is completely useless, and shot from way too far away from the car. Next time be sure to tell them to rotate the cell phone sideways & shoot the video in landscape format.

The second video is slightly better since it's somewhat closer to the car & shot in landscape format. But it still needs to be shot a lot closer to the car & the video quality/resolution needs to be a lot better.

Gotta ask, why air shocks on a drag car? JMO but that shit didn't ever work right on a drag car way back in the 1970's, so it's a good bet they aren't going to work any better these days either.

DILLIGASDAVE wrote:The videos need to be a lot better.

The first scrunched-up "vertical video" clip is completely useless, and shot from way too far away from the car. Next time be sure to tell them to rotate the cell phone sideways & shoot the video in landscape format.

The second video is slightly better since it's somewhat closer to the car & shot in landscape format. But it still needs to be shot a lot closer to the car & the video quality/resolution needs to be a lot better.

Gotta ask, why air shocks on a drag car? JMO but that shit didn't ever work right on a drag car way back in the 1970's, so it's a good bet they aren't going to work any better these days either.

video was shot without me know it till later on, sorry if he is not James Cameron, as for the air shocks they was on the car when i got it and never changed them

Get some 50/50's on there. What was your 60ft. times?

supervel45 wrote:Get some 50/50's on there. What was your 60ft. times?

X2 ^^^
With some GT rear springs and and four cylinder front springs. No sway bar up front and a GT rear sway bar . Some tubular control arms would be help too . On a budget ^^^^ this works

supervel45 wrote:Get some 50/50's on there. What was your 60ft. times?

60ft--1.52
6.90--1/8 mile
10.92--1/4 mile

The type of suspension whitefield is talking about is really a good budget combo cut 1 coil off the springs and rock on.....

A 1.5 short is kicking ass for air shocks if you ask me we could never get them things to work well

gmsmkr wrote:The type of suspension whitefield is talking about is really a good budget combo cut 1 coil off the springs and rock on.....

A 1.5 short is kicking ass for air shocks if you ask me we could never get them things to work well

^^^Same. Good 60ft' for what you have. A lot of guys would also go with some 90/10's on the front too. It's all old school tricks but, it still works.