NHRA tech or lack thereof

[Mike Pearson]

Just remember most of the tech guys are basically volunteers and get paid very little to do what the do. You can always protest someone if you see something that is illegal by the rules. Who Knows maybe tech caught the infraction and told the guy to have it fixed by the next race. You can always ask the owner of the car about an item such as this as well. I doubt that shock placement is helping the car run any faster.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

I doubt that shock placement is helping the car run any faster.

You should ask somebody how that affects shock ratio.

[Mike Pearson]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

You should ask somebody how that affects shock ratio.

I actually ran my car with out the shocks on the rear one weekend. One of the shock mount broke on the trip to the track. I took both shocks off of the rear of the car. There was no difference in performance or handling. I was really surprised at that. It was a stick combo at that time

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

I actually ran my car with out the shocks on the rear one weekend. One of the shock mount broke on the trip to the track. I took both shocks off of the rear of the car. There was no difference in performance or handling. I was really surprised at that. It was a stick combo at that time

I could see that with stiff springs Mike, the shock isn't really dampening the spring movement. As to shock placement, when Tom Rix was running the Buick in Top Stock we were at a race and I heard IHRA told Monty Bogan to fix the shock mounts on the rear suspension of his Corvette. I told them it wasn't just the shock mounts that were beating all of us, it was the way underfactored engine!

[Mike Pearson]

Originally Posted by Bobby DiDomenico

I could see that with stiff springs Mike, the shock isn't really dampening the spring movement. As to shock placement, when Tom Rix was running the Buick in Top Stock we were at a race and I heard IHRA told Monty Bogan to fix the shock mounts on the rear suspension of his Corvette. I told them it wasn't just the shock mounts that were beating all of us, it was the way underfactored engine!

It had mono leaf springs at the time. Now I have coil overs. Other than ease of working on the car and a little weight reduction there was no improvement when I installed the coil overs from the leaf springs.