[Adger Smith]

OK Chris,
You are beginning to touch on an area that I have a comment or example of what happens with weight/mass.
Yes, I have the lite weight 40 spline gun drilled MW axles and the MW lite steel spool (alum dosen't support the gear I run on the flange enough and deflects causing gear breakage)
I have the suspension on my V-6 Camaro set up to ET. it doesn't dead hook. It has controlled tire rotation on the hit. When I run it with the wheelie bars, just hanging.. not tapping the ground, It slows the car down a consistent .006. In the video's you can see the tire rotation on the hit is different. It is the effect of unsprung weight on the suspension. (shocks and springs) I have tried a couple different shock settings to get the hook, with and without the W/bars, the same. It just doesn't happen. Vic at ETRC tells me I could get it to do the same thing (rotate the tire on the hit) if I used the wheelie bars to tap the ground and kick the car/suspension up on the tire. I'm too lazy to try it and it works well the way I have it. No sense gettig lost....I'm of the opinion that excess unsprung weight is the real enemy, esp in my low Torque/HP combination.