Illumina's / drag racing question

[Guest zfan]

I am currently running Arizona Z springs with Tokico blue hp's. My 60 ft.'s seem to suffer because I get no transfer of weight or no lift on the front end. Would it be worth getting the Tokico Illumina's with the adjustable struts and setting them stiff in the rear and real soft in the front to help transfer or am I just waisting my time?

 

Anyone have any experience running them with a stiffer than stock spring? Arizons Z stated my springs were approx. 10-15 percent stiffer than stock springs and stock ride heigth.

 

Mike

[DaleMX]

I wonder about that. I run stock springs right now and stock shocks. When I hit the throttle the rear squats on the bumb stops and the front rises up to the end of play and makes for a hairy ride, but the little BF Goodrich Traction T/A 195 rear tires bite the pavement like no tomorrow. I attribuite the traction to the amount of rubber on the road and it seems that at full squat the tires bite really well. It's gotta look funny.

 

I hesitate changing over to my coilover setup because I think it will be too stiff to grip and I'll loose traction.

[jeffp]

I have the adjustable Tokico's on the rear of my car. The difference is night and day. I DONT want the car squatting that much onder power. In fact, use the stock setup, get on some wet pavement and nail it and see what happens. You WILL get wheel hop! I had to set the adjusters to the 5 position to square the car away, in fact from the 3 position to the 5 position is night and day according to Clark at JWT when he was doing runs with the car tuning it. I had them set to 3 and he commented about the traction and handleing, so I set them up and it was a different car all together. The car still squats somewhat, but it is not unbearable and does help somewhat. I have KYB non adjustables on the front of the car, they give me stability, but they still allow the front of the car to lift and set on the rear tires. Good enough for me.

I cant do the clutch it, nail it, and let the clutch out deal, as the tires just break lose.

But I figure with a good set of wrinkle wall 8.5's that should not be a problem either. And YES, I can run 8.5's on the rear of the car without flares with the wheel I have selected for the car centerlind convo pro's with a 5" back space will do the job, you have about 1/4" of space from the wheel to the control arm with that combo, and look at all that space in the wheel well for tire growth. Anything bigger will require flares, but I dont see that as being necessary at this point.