Not saying it doesn't, but it doesn't happen 100 times an hour like driving over the road, unless you are at a really crappy track with pot holes, washboards and other imperfections. I'm not saying you CAN'T make it work with stiff shocks so why don't
YOU read what
WE are trying to say and not interpret it in a drag race application but in terms of a street car. You are going to create more heat and shock wear with high pressures to compensate for a softer spring. The shock is going to work harder to keep those issues from happening then it would with a regular spring rate and will cause the shock to wear out faster then a car with a street style suspension. I'm not trying to tell you it can't be done, I'm saying it isn't a cost effective, reliable way to set-up a daily driver for people on a budget who race 5 times a year. So don't sit there and get nasty with us because we don't like your idea, obviously you have a great set-up under your car that you like but the rest of us aren't neanderthals, there are other people here with alot of experience in setting up suuspensions and probably as much or more trial and error time as you so I for one, woulkd appreciate it if you would knock off the downtalking because we don't agree with you. If you want to discuss things discuss them, but there is no need to be all pissed off and defensive about. I'm not dismissing any of your ideas but just offering up MY opinion from MY research and MY experience and if anything you are dismissing the rest of us. Tim has valid points, I have valid points, Ian does and so do you. That is the whole point of putting up questions here is to get as much info from people who have had the experience and while I may not have "disected how a bump stops works" and may not know everything there is to know about suspension I certainly know the ins and outs for setting up an LS1 car for street/strip duty because I've been doing it for years and it is a little different then your lightweight 1st Gen race car. Noone is trying to undermine what you have accomplished or know but don't talk to me (or anyone else) like we are incompetent.
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Originally Posted by BMF
You dont suppose you might see " That is when you can run into porposing, shock deflection, shock bottom and top out" On a drag launch???
I got news for ya, first off porposing is rocking back and forth, a car setup incorrect will do that, Shock deflection can be seen on the return to earth, Bottom out and top out also.
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I don't need the word porpoise defined for me, And I am not talking, for the last time, about a drag launch. I am talking when he hits a bump in the rain and the weight comes off his front tires and crashes him into a tree. I also don't think unless he straps his car to a Saturn 5 rocket he will have to worry too much about his "Return to Earth" just yet, maybe after a few more mods.