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    Default My Rocket set up what do you think

    The car is a older rocket, heres what it has on it right now.


    Front weights:
    left 555 right 523

    Rear weights:
    Left 736 right 555

    Percentages:
    cross 53.1%
    rear 54.5%
    Left 54.5%

    Bite 170

    Stagger:
    4" rear and front 1"

    Shocks:
    LF 763 RF 735
    LR 963 LR 955

    5th coil
    733 300 spring

    Springs:
    LF 500 RF 400
    LR 225 RR 200.

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    Take 100lbs of bite out & swap the rear springs.
    Gill T. Azell

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    Rocket recommends 150 on bite and as the last poster said swap the rears

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    you said you have 170lbs of bite but your #'s show 181lbs and thats way to much i would back it down an start with around 120-140lbs
    Last edited by 4bangerhotrod; 06-13-2011 at 11:54 PM.

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    I was wondering what swapping the shocks would do? When i was thumbing through the rocket book it has the lighter spring on the RR



    right my math was off.
    Last edited by vms; 06-14-2011 at 09:48 AM.

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    What engine, track configuration, year car,tire rule, black or blue?
    Last edited by jedclampit; 06-14-2011 at 10:51 AM.

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    I have always ran a slightly stiffer spring in the left rear than the right rear. I have never tried it the other way. Closest I have been is equal in the back. Right now I have a 225 RR and 250 LR in an 03 black front car.
    "Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back."
    — Heraclitus

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    358 steel block engine, dr21 tires, 96 black front end said to be updated to a 01. has the 6 hole lower rod mounts

    1/2 mile va motor speedway, wide corners

    3/8 mile dixieland speedway, narrow tight track

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    As others have said thats way too much wedge. With a limited motor as it sounds you are running you won't have the power to drive through an exit push. I would go down to ~100lbs wedge and as others have suggested swap the springs.

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    Wow, that's an classic car!

    I don't have any experience with pre 2000 cars.

    Something I would question is the condition of the chassis tubing, on the INSIDE.
    I have cut up some old racecars, and the tubing was pretty badly corroded and deteriorated ,yet looked cherry on the outside.

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