Cal trac /mono leaf results

@ oldmanrick.....Well 1st summit race was good. I took out a 8 second S/C 58 Corvette. We both had terrible identical .036 lights.I found out now, the left lane lights .020 worse the the right. I kind of knew that, but didn't want to push it. It was 2 thou at the finish line in my favor. Justin Jewell is a super good racer. He just gave up a little strip.I was only 2 thou off my number, so it would have been close anyway.For him that is pretty hard to do, crossing @ 147 MPH to my 122!
Second race I had a 7 second Indy Mopar powered dragester. I was .012 to his .015, but it went 2 thou the other way, because I didn't run the munber.I lost it in the 60's. Found out from 2 friends, the car is leaving fine, then unloading the tires spinning 1 revolution. So I need to go softer on the shock settings. I also added a little pre load this week to the bars,because that is what my friend did.I should have known not to mess with a good thing.Every car reacts different to adjustments. I should have left them a lone. Lastly I noticed the rear shocks are almost totally collapsed in the ride height postion, so I think they may be bottoming out when it comes off the wheelie. Easy to make some extensions.At least most the heavy hitters went out early too.The division 6 E.T. finals are at our track this year, so we have double the cars......more at the 11 o'clock news!

Here is a link to a video. Look close at the rear tires when it leaves. Sorry for the quality, sun was in my wifes face:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4841873050998&l=2729371710273157294