Slick Recommendation for stick car

[Joe Martens]

X 3 on the Hoosier D07!

[Stickshift]

Originally Posted by MLinden

We have a McLeod soft lok. Front has dual adjustable shocks. Springs and shocks are fast from Randy Mans. Rear is all caltracs with their 9 way shocks. We were suspecting the rear shock, but have been working directly with them (great customer service btw). After going through a lot of stuff we started looking at the tires.

We have been from 380-800 lbs on base and 9.7/11.8/13.2 on the levers as we have tried to work through. From 3800-5000 on launch RPM. Front shocks on the loose end of rebound and the rear on the stiff end. Various combinations of the above.

You’ll never get there without DA shocks on all four corners. I fought it for years.

Those single adjustable shocks are WORTHLESS and even more WORTHLESS with a stick. You need to be able to control bump and rebound separate from each other.

I doubt you have a tire problem. The other issues is your traction bars. I’ve never seen a stick car that wanted the bar running up hill, jacking the *** of the car up like a stink bug.

Get the bars running downhill and get better shocks. You’ll never get there with this shocks and I don?t care who makes them half assed work.

They may have great customer service but they ain’t paying you to test and tune their substandard shocks.

It is what it is.

[ron b]

Originally Posted by Stickshift

You?ll never get there without DA shocks on all four corners. I fought it for years.

Those single adjustable shocks are WORTHLESS and even more WORTHLESS with a stick. You need to be able to control bump and rebound separate from each other.

I doubt you have a tire problem. The other issues is your traction bars. I?ve never seen a stick car that wanted the bar running up hill, jacking the *** of the car up like a stink bug.

Get the bars running downhill and get better shocks. You?ll never get there with this shocks and I don?t care who makes them half assed work.

They may have great customer service but they ain?t paying you to test and tune their substandard shocks.

It is what it is.

so you are saying downward from the front bracket?

[Stickshift]

Originally Posted by ron b

so you are saying downward from the front bracket?

Whatever it takes to get the bar running downhill. Raise the back of the bar, lower the front or both.

That?s an issue I have with the bars you use. They don?t have nearly enough adjustment.

Like a ladder bar, the IC is always too short and too high with ANY bar like that, especially if you are making power or have a stick or worse you make power and have a stick.

So getting the IC as low as you can get it is how I tune them. I don’t tune stick/radial so I can’t answer to that.

I?m also a huge advocate of using the lightest flywheel you can find. Rotational inertia ends up at the tire and all the flywheel weight makes shock tuning different than it would be with a lighter flywheel.