Aussie Gremlin

Tom

Tom, I'm not really sure what direction to head in now, didn't really have any traction issues last night, last change I made was adding 6 clicks of compression to the front shocks and that has helped a lot, I think it was coming down too quickly and unloading the rear. The solid front spring eye bushes a while back also helped a lot.

If I bring the RPM up more on the line, the rear separates and most of the travel is used up before the launch, don't know if rear suspension upgrades would fix that, I'm thinking split monos and caltracs would have the same problem.

If I want to run more in actual competition next season, I'm really going to have to work on consistency. 

As with most things, upgrading the rear opens a can of worms, do I just add some Caltracs with the stock springs, change the springs out for split mono-leafs, upgrade shocks, have to consider adding sliders at the rear and them maybe move the springs inboard while I'm doing all of that. One of the things that's on my mind is that if I move away from the slapper bars, I might need to install a rear anti-roll bar, it launches pretty flat and straight now, I reckon the slapper bars work a bit like an anti-roll bar.

As I understand it, when foot braking you are always going to have rear separation when you bring it up on the convertor and it's not something you can slow down with rear shocks, this would be where a transbrake comes in I guess.

The current convertor flashes to 4200-4500 rpm on launch, so maybe the gains would come from a better convertor with higher stall speed.

Always the challenge with my limited budget of trying to work out what will be the biggest bang for buck investment will be to make the car quicker, especially now that it's withing sight of a 10 second timeslip  

PS: One crazy idea I have is to install the old front bumper onto the back of the car, a bit of ballast at the back might help with traction, especially if the track prep is a bit average as it seems to work fine now on a good track.

Changing the cam has picked up something like 5 mph in the top end, just need to improve the 60' time to match. The solid lifters definitely seem to allow it spin to higher RPM, what I thought previously was the rev limiter starting to cut spark below it's set point, was more than likely the hydraulic lifters starting to give up.