2nd gen wheel hop elimination?

[ks71z28]

My 71 Camaro has 2" lowering springs (175#) with 1" lowering blocks. The car wheel hops with anything more than street tires. I track drive the car and want better straight line traction. I was thinking of some sort of torque arm or upper link. Ideas???

[BEEBE]

Check into the - New low profile Cal-Track bars form Calvert Racing. You will be satisfied. :drive:

[Travis B]

Check into the - New low profile Cal-Track bars form Calvert Racing. You will be satisfied. :drive:

I second that Cal tracs are probably the best traction aid for a leaf sprung vehicle! Pricey but worth the money!

[Piet]

Definately Cal-Tracks... (or Competition Engineering)
OR... if you want to make yourself http://www.hotrodsandhemis.com/traction1.html

[yody]

if you plan on having the car handle you better keep those things super loose, otherwise you are talking about bind-city. THey would work decent if you left them loose on the street and tightened them on the track. ALso not sure how you will like the solid front bushing.

[Steve68]

I have Cal-Tracs on my 70 nova, I have them in the lower hole and have them tight, you can feel the bind pulling in the drive way, I will be experimenting at the track on June 5th, I'm going to try them in a coupe of configurations, I was going to try to get some adjustable shocks buy then, but I don't know if that will happen, I have gotten a 1.8 60 ft time with the CT's, I was getting that with slapper bars. I would like to see 1.5,1.6. I also need to change the front springs, the solid front eye bushings are rough, but you can get used to it, but I drive the car on the weekends, I would go crazy if I had to drive it everyday, Steve

[ks71z28]

I can't live with suspension bid because I would loose traction in corners or over bumps. Has anyone used any other alternatives to slapper bars or cal trac style bars? I had a torque arm arangement or a 3rd link like the 67 camaro had. thanks for the replies

Keith

[zbugger]

What shocks ae you running? Also, try this mod.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

Raising the front spring eye will increase bite. The shocks may help as well, but it depends on what you are running.

[4MuscleMachines]

That and maybe a better set of leaf springs like Global West. They are biased towards the front of the leaf to prevent wheel hop. I have them on three of my cars and they work great even with drag radials.

[ks71z28]

I was thinking of doing the front mount mod, which will allow me to use 1/2" lowering blocks rather than the 1" in the car now, which I think contrributes to the wheel hop. I have Rancho leafs in the car, honestly. I have the entire 2nd gen kit with springs, shocks, and adjustable sway bars. The shocks are stiff. I may go to QA1 shocks so I can soften them up for the strip in the front to weight transfer better. The car is very tight and stiff. I ran it at the strip a few years with slicks and it chattered the tires really hard, slapper bars helped. how much higher is the hole drilled in the front bracket, I hear it is 1", and the top needs to be removed to clear the spring????

[Lesrace82]

http://www.nastyz28.com/ubb/Forum10/HTML/007242.html

Heres a thread about doing the mod.

[WS6]

im getting ready to drill my new holes and get new bushings too. i never had wheel hop problems with ym 79.

[Lesrace82]

I had a little bit of a wheel hop problem with my Hotchkis springs. I think it was in most part due to cheap shocks, but his winter Im going to relocate the mounting holes as well. Then just need to decide on what i want to use for shocks.