TWISTER
06-20-2012, 08:01 AM
Been looking over my car and noticed that there seems to be significant spacing between the drive shaft and torque arm towards the front of the car. Approx 4-5 inches. Is this common? What effects would it have on the car if i moved it closer to the driveshaft(moving it to the left)? Will that enhance forward drive at all? Or am i just wasting my time and need to leave it alone.
Also i have seen several post about 5th coil springs and locations. My question is this. When moving the 5th coil shock and spring towards the back of the car do you typically stiffen the spring when doing so and softening spring when moving it farther out? Also what about just softening or stiffening the spring but keeping it in the same location to help initial acceleration traction? I read on a couple of threads where some of you talk about how important the 5th coil set up is to forward drive and initial throttle traction. We are having some difficulty gettting the initial traction that we need and feel we should be getting. I do know that there are other areas of the car you can work on to effect this area as well, i am just curious as to the effect of the 5th coil on my area of concern.
Our track starts out with a lil bit of bite and we are usually a bit tight for hot laps, or right on the verge of it anyway, but for feature time the track changes dramatically and after about 5 laps into the race we are so free and have little to no forward drive and exit speed while other cars are just rocketing off the same corners with what appears to be much more drive than we have.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Also i have seen several post about 5th coil springs and locations. My question is this. When moving the 5th coil shock and spring towards the back of the car do you typically stiffen the spring when doing so and softening spring when moving it farther out? Also what about just softening or stiffening the spring but keeping it in the same location to help initial acceleration traction? I read on a couple of threads where some of you talk about how important the 5th coil set up is to forward drive and initial throttle traction. We are having some difficulty gettting the initial traction that we need and feel we should be getting. I do know that there are other areas of the car you can work on to effect this area as well, i am just curious as to the effect of the 5th coil on my area of concern.
Our track starts out with a lil bit of bite and we are usually a bit tight for hot laps, or right on the verge of it anyway, but for feature time the track changes dramatically and after about 5 laps into the race we are so free and have little to no forward drive and exit speed while other cars are just rocketing off the same corners with what appears to be much more drive than we have.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.