Thread: mild dragster alterd rear susp

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Originally Posted by canadianal

dave my guess is quite a bit slower at 11 seconds i could not see this doing a 9 second pass. i keep stessing a mild big block and i mean mild.
i think the vw front end has been proven to be pretty good and durable,heck they race beatles too and some of those are stink fast.
the idea of this is to make a very reliable et car

not only that, most of them pull the wheels up and come back down fine, without loosing control. pretty good for a light duty front end

Originally Posted by Matt167

not only that, most of them pull the wheels up and come back down fine, without loosing control. pretty good for a light duty front end

Not a lot of drag races are won with the wheels in the air...... The best motion on a drag car is forwards, not skyward!!!!! Wheelies only look kewl, they do very little to lower the ET or add to consistency... You wanna be a crowd pleaser, or a good racer??

If VW on other such front ends, there would be more of them on the track, and fewer struts or A-Arm set ups..... Take a look at what the competitive and consistent cars run, if there were a better system to be running, I imagine they would have it........

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Not a lot of drag races are won with the wheels in the air...... The best motion on a drag car is forwards, not skyward!!!!! Wheelies only look kewl, they do very little to lower the ET or add to consistency... You wanna be a crowd pleaser, or a good racer??

If VW on other such front ends, there would be more of them on the track, and fewer struts or A-Arm set ups..... Take a look at what the competitive and consistent cars run, if there were a better system to be running, I imagine they would have it........

I know wheelies actully loose races, I was just giving an example that the beetles that do pull the wheels up, don't loose control from doing so. the front end takes it very well. Castor angle could be adjusted positive more to help this tho.