The truth about caltracs
i had to do some playing to get mine to work. you gotta figure my car is extremely nose heavy, iron mega block, iron hemi heads, heavy cross ram, big cooing system. it goes 3800# with me in it. it pulls 1.44-1.46 60fts pretty consistently off the foot brake, just got back from norwalk and it ran low 10.30's all weekend. even went a 10.32 on the brakes sat night @ 123mph. there is a ideal distance between the difference of the front mounting hole and the rear mounting hole, i forget what it is but mine is off a little. the things that did help, obviously no binding. pinion angle, im at 4 down. and getting the front end loose with lots of travel. i cut the front end snubbers down, put tubular uppers on with heim joints (didn't change the 60ft but i noticed it doing better wheelies), and the calvert front shocks. i run my bars in the lower hole, been setting the pre load to 3 flats with someone sitting in the drivers seat. think both rear shocks are on 5 at the moment. once i figured it out i don't mess with it other than adjusting the preload every time i go out to the track. but your right every car is gonna be a little different.
this is how it looked on the very first outing
after doing all the stuff i listed and a converter swap this is how it looks now
i had to do some playing to get mine to work. you gotta figure my car is extremely nose heavy, iron mega block, iron hemi heads, heavy cross ram, big cooing system. it goes 3800# with me in it. it pulls 1.44-1.46 60fts pretty consistently off the foot brake, just got back from norwalk and it ran low 10.30's all weekend. even went a 10.32 on the brakes sat night @ 123mph. there is a ideal distance between the difference of the front mounting hole and the rear mounting hole, i forget what it is but mine is off a little. the things that did help, obviously no binding. pinion angle, im at 4 down. and getting the front end loose with lots of travel. i cut the front end snubbers down, put tubular uppers on with heim joints (didn't change the 60ft but i noticed it doing better wheelies), and the calvert front shocks. i run my bars in the lower hole, been setting the pre load to 3 flats with someone sitting in the drivers seat. think both rear shocks are on 5 at the moment. once i figured it out i don't mess with it other than adjusting the preload every time i go out to the track. but your right every car is gonna be a little different.
this is how it looked on the very first outing
after doing all the stuff i listed and a converter swap this is how it looks now
