Originally Posted by dparker
Originally Posted by Tod74
Originally Posted by TYSON14
When i am in the water box the car wont run straight. So we put a little preload on one side and nothing happen. But what i dont understand is that it will run straight down the track. We put a string on the suspension and every thing seems to be right. So what next?
If it goes straight down track why would you change the chassis?
How a chassis car does a burnout can show you that something is not right on chassis setting. When your going down the track your not spinning your tires so you can keep your car in the groove.
We had a car this year, running a 632, whose rear tires would jump to the left whenever the driver hit the gas in the water box. He would turn into it, leaving the ass end of the car hung out and smoke the tires across the starting line. This car made numerous passes running 8.40s with no apparant problems. A few of the racers told him that something was off in his chassis to do this. He came to the track for another race and decided to try his throttlestop. When the thottle stop came back on it blew the tires loose and the car jumped to the left just like it always does in the water, only this time he was at half track. The car shot from the left lane to the right guard rail totaling his 80,000 dollar racecar.
I think there's alot of cars that have a pretty good chassis that are not set right that still go down the track. Big tires and a well built chassis will shadow wrongfully setup chassis. But when the tires are spinning, it magnifies missettings on the chassis.
Just curious. How big of a tire does your friend run..reason i ask this is because i agree with you Big tires can be forgiving and even mask a problem in the chassis set up..( one reason i run big tires 8) )
and what was the reasoning behind running the throttle stop with the problems he was having ?..sure fire way to unload a
good working chassis on Big hp engines
Just curious.. :?: