I heard that the best weight transfer for a drag car can be done by removing the front shock,is this true? A friend of mine has lower control arms, and and remove shocks in the front,and removed swaybars. he launches on slicks and pulls 1.6 60ft times.

 

you cant remove the front struts. he probably just disconnected the sway bar or totally removed it

 

aside from any miniscule benefit from the reduced wieght, the laws of physics should say that dampening (or lack thereof) in the front suspension shouldn't effect weight transfer. The rear suspension is what is loaded up on launch, the front just lifts. Once the front comes down I would prefer dampening than none.

 

are for real

 

struts without them the front would slam down then unload the tires which will result in traction loss. this is why they have struts with different damping rates

 

I drilled holes in my struts and leat all the oil out. Now why I did this is becaues the factory struts are to tight when you switch to k member and coilovers, This did too things helped my take off at the track but when the car came down it unloaded the tires but I still picked up 5 one hunderdes and picked the left front tire 8 in off the ground.

 

quik ..are these friends of yours..j/k

 

NO, those ideas are just crazy and dangerous IMHO

 

I'm laughing my *** of at this......these are people who make racing cost so much because thier an acciedent waiting to happen

 

i have heard of worn out fronts working but i wouldnt want the unloading of the rear. thats what causes ppl to spin out