i just want someone to help. im trying to decide what im going to do but i need some help to figure out what to do. can adjustable springs help the car handle better if it has drag springs?

 

The only way to have adjustable springs are to have a complete front and rear coil over conversion with the ride height adjustability. I assume you mean adjustable shocks. Adjustable shocks can help greatly at the track if your car is set-up to actually take advantage of them. In addtion I do beleive that their opposite settings could help control the drag springs for normal driving.

 

Maybe this is why you haven't gotten a good, clear answer...drag springs and handling don't go together, it's either/or....you can't hve both in the same car.


Ed

 

i dont mean adjustable springs, i f'ed up (adjustable shocks). i know you cant exactly have both but you can make up for it a little. so youre saying that adjustable struts/shocks wont help it handle better by changing the settings with drag springs? i find that hard to believe. i know it wont handle great, but i think it should help a little.

i got a little thrown off by the second comment, so read my next post for a reply to the first comment. i couldn't delete this post for some reason

 

thank you. thats all i needed to know. i wanted to confirm what i thought.

 

Don't discredit Eb's advice though. Drag springs are not meant for all out street/road course use. You can't have your cake and eat it to in this case. A standard set of lowing srpings will suffice for your average car that is drivin on the streets and strip.

 

Drag shocks have very lower rebound damper, and very high bump damper. Typical drag shock is 90% bump/10%rebound.

Your average roadrace shock is more like 40/60 or 40% bump/ 60% rebound forces.

There is no shock that will single dial both of these forces to different values. The adjustment will increase or decrease both proportionately ALWAYS retaining the 40/60 proportion. Low setting may be valved at say 40lbspressure on bump/60lbs pressure on rebound and then highest setting may be more like 80lbs bump/120lbs rebound.

If you want the ability to change bump and rebound proportions, You will need to buy dual adjustment struts $$$$$$$. You'll need separate bump and rebound adjusters.

 

it is mostly going to be for at the strip, but i wanted to be able to mediate for this a little if i take it out on the street. im not looking to have both. thanks for the help. im really close to deciding what i wanted to do, i just needed a little more input