leaf spring right rear preload?

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71gtdart

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running super stock springs and a snubber on the Dart race car. trying to getr the thing finished up for this coming saturdays test and tune. gonna be the first pass!!!

anyway, I'm in the shop this morning setting the ride height and started thinking. I set it where the front of the rocker panel is 2 inches lower than the rear of the panel from the ground. well, of course we all know that with super stock springs the right rear will be higher in the air than the left rear because they are designed that way for preload.

my question is do you guys leave it that way, or do you turn the left front torsion bar until it levels the rear and puts more preload on the right rear?
 
When I was running them I set the frt equal and let the rear be as it is. I was running low 11s this way not a problem.
 

we jacked the left torsion bar up to put more pressure on the right rear, and level out the front end. trial and error between making it ride funny and keeping it level. was on a 67 tubbed hemi belvedere.----------bob:coffee2:
 
Back in the day we did alot with setting up the car. Most was with the driver "in'' the car. Even when aligning the front end along with setting the height of the T bars. Un-conventional from a daily driver set up.Did it make a difference ? Maybe only the mental factor but it keeps the mind thinking about picking up that last 1000th of a second.
 
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