I just noticed that I have them in the MSRT so my question is how are they at the track? Do they hurt and I should replace them? Or they make no difference? Thanks in advance.
I'll assume you mean the short track? (1320') Same as regular shocks... They just do load leveling. As far as regular shocks go I think they're pretty good. Never hear much of wheel hop being a problem. They're not adjustable. For the optimal track experience you want the weight transfer to the rear axle. Something that squats. For that you're going to need adjustable shocks 'cause what's optimal for the track is not going to be what you really want tooling around town or the twisties. That's my understanding.
They're great, I'd leave them. Matter of fact, I've had several different suspensions and configurations of LX stuff. And each and everytime, I switched back to the Nivo's. Sorry Dave, but gotta crush the squat thought. On our cars, when the rear squats, the wheels camber in. With the way our suspension is designed, when they camber in, toe goes positive and that scrubs speed in a huge way. For 1320 crap, you want the back to stay planted, but still want the front to lift to get as much weight transfer as possible.
Thanks for the info. The 06 did not have them. The first thing I noticed was that the rear sat a little higher than the 06. I really have not noticed much difference but I don't carry loads or trailer anything with this car and don't plan to. So I just wondered if there was a lost in performance with them.
Yep.. That is why a very popular shock for drag racing is 90/10 front and 50/50 rear. This way the front end flys up on launch due to the 10 rebound compression to load up the rear for traction. The comes down slow on the 90 compression stroke. They also make more "relaxed" 80/20 for the fornt. On my '69 Dart I use to run 80./20 and 50/50 on stiffened leaf springs on the street. Due to tire sizes and torsion bar adjustment I had it adjusted to a nice "rake". So daily driving it was fun... I was either looking at the top of street lamp posts or the bottom of mail box posts. ..
