lEAF SUSPENSION

Jumpy on/off gas till get out of traffic then gets fast.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• imca
• modified
• leaf
• suspension

[cmsracing]

To a Drag Racer (me) this is strange! What are you trying to achieve by allowing the pinion angle to change whenever power is applied? Or am I missing the point? Please explain!  chris

[KMUDD07]

Racing on dirt you need something to cushion the engine power when you get on the gas. This spring is absorbing the tourque to keep traction in the tires.

[goneracin23]

Did you custom make you pull bar(s)

[KMUDD07]

Kinda, it's a BSB pullbar that I took off decel bisquit then made my own decel rod to run uphill. The spring is custom I come up with on a spring rater.

[KMUDD07]

The leaf car is a homebuilt I built. The new car is a dirtworks w/ 4/Z. Only run once so far this year, lots of rain. If your on tacky and rough definetly stick w/ z on right side.

[drvienbysuffering]

iam not used to leaf cars. the only leaf car that i seen was vern jackson at boone the benji won so 05.

i hear there good for rough tracks

[KMUDD07]

I usually tear up 4 bars when it's tacky or rough. When it slicks up they tear me up. I'm trying the 4 bar route this year, we'll see.

[biggiecamp]

We ran a monoleaf with coil assist and leaf sliders on a late model years ago. Car was dependable and predictable. Was the fastest thing out there on a dry slick track.

Also tried a cantilvered setup. WICKED FAST!!!, but hard to get the setup just right.

[505197]

@KMUDD07 If you put a scale on the pull bar you could tell how much HP you have, like a big ole fish scale. Or how about a potentiometer that measures movement, the higher the voltage shown the further the bar moved, showing grip. The put a big heads up display on the windshield, oh shit, you ain't got a shield, we'll have to do projection, of the voltage number. You know your a racer when you can enjoy and evaluate a race by watchin the rear suspension work, man it just looks very smooth to me

[Bl1tzFr3sH]

I know some people i super streets use a setup called "fastboy setup"...google it. im not sure about modified though. They float the RR cut out some parts of the leaf spring. im not sure..didnt quit understand it.

[levisnteeshirt]

looks like to me a housing floater like is used in drag racing , and a set of sliders , would free up the housing, but you might have to add some type of " torque arm " to control the rearend

[levisnteeshirt]

@arizonaresident1 if you used some ajustable blocks under the perch you could dial in some , but it would be constant ,, they just started running these cars locally ,, interesting ,, don't really like them ,, trying to understand them ,,,

[Maughanster7]

you can have rear steer with a leaf car....you run a slider on the LR. they are an older setup but on a tacky track they are fast! if you think about it....its like having 2 little lift arms!

[arizonaresident1]

what's the point of monoleaf? why not just coil? You can't have rear steer so I'm not sure what advantage you would have, besides, I don't think anyone builds these anymore

[geordo2001]

Makes alot of sense keeps the tires planted.

[originalbrownirish]

wow cool to look @ but really antiquated suspension setup