L-body traction tips

[supercrackerbox]

Short of buying an LSD (this year at least) what are all the options?

[GLHNSLHT2]

http://www.pnw-sdac.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=2579

Made the car spin both fronts all the time. It won't lift a inside tire off the ground in the corners so you can be on the gas all the way through the turns. The only d'side is that if there's a crown to the road the car will want to slide the front end towards the ditch. Kinda sucks in the snow. I'm not even gonna think about an LSD after this mod. It's just not needed.

[contraption22]

Stiff rear suspension... 450lb or higher springs.
I like a soft front suspension to go with it. That is soft springs and stiff struts.
The sway bar link works on the street if all you want to do is get both tires to spin instead of 1, but in my experience, it doesn't do much on a stickey track with slicks. An LSD helps tremendously, like the peloquin or quaife.

[GLHNSLHT2]

Havent tried slicks at the track but it spins them both at the track too. Cut a 2.1 60ft on streets and 5spd with my g/f riding shotgun too. Best yet. This isn't an old shim the sway bar mod.

[GLHNSLHT2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX-ECY0lWxE Enough traction on the front? :)

[I wear pants]

http://www.pnw-sdac.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=2579

Made the car spin both fronts all the time. It won't lift a inside tire off the ground in the corners so you can be on the gas all the way through the turns. The only d'side is that if there's a crown to the road the car will want to slide the front end towards the ditch. Kinda sucks in the snow. I'm not even gonna think about an LSD after this mod. It's just not needed.

Where can I pick these up at?

[GLHNSLHT2]

click on the 1st picture, it'll have a URL and detailed intstructions 2nd pic does too as well.

[t3rse]

Havent tried slicks at the track but it spins them both at the track too. Cut a 2.1 60ft on streets and 5spd with my g/f riding shotgun too. Best yet. This isn't an old shim the sway bar mod.

I cut a 2.1 with crappy suspension on crappy street tires....

[GLHNSLHT2]

in a 3300lb race weight with a 5spd and 11" 4 wheel discs?

[I wear pants]

Thanks for the info. I think I will have to try this myself. I guess I cant quite make sense of how it works though?

[roachjuice]

Thanks for the info. I think I will have to try this myself. I guess I cant quite make sense of how it works though?

takes some weight off one side and adds it to the other. works. i did the wooden block thing. :thumb:

[GLHNSLHT2]

what the sway bar mod does is allows the bar to move freely and not bind up. Allows the car to handle better while spinning both at the track.

[t3rse]

in a 3300lb race weight with a 5spd and 11" 4 wheel discs?

no, in an omni...lol

[Akromix]

what the sway bar mod does is allows the bar to move freely and not bind up. Allows the car to handle better while spinning both at the track.

You don't want the tires to spin at the track besides the burnout box.

[WVRampage]

225/50r15 bfg DRs and I got a 1.92 60 with them.

[Vigo]

i think everybody is missing Jay's point because they dont understand the problem that the mod addresses.

what i want to know is in addition to simply fixing the binding, did you mess with preload from side to side with the adjustable endlinks to get to where you are or did you just torque em down and voila?

[GLHNSLHT2]

You don't want the tires to spin at the track besides the burnout box.


That's what I meant. When you want them to spin they spin both.

[GLHNSLHT2]

i think everybody is missing Jay's point because they dont understand the problem that the mod addresses.

what i want to know is in addition to simply fixing the binding, did you mess with preload from side to side with the adjustable endlinks to get to where you are or did you just torque em down and voila?


The preload is set equally. But you could preload one side if you wanted to but i started at zero and was gonna go from there but zero works great.