New coil overs causing problems...

[capteddie]

Originally Posted by Double Venom

Dwain,
Thank you, it's nice to be back!
Swaybars: on the front leave it off! The CR sway bar is much, much to heavy and stiff, unless you want to call "SPEEDWAY" (catalog sales) and order up one about half the size or even a hollow bar and weld in your own heim joints.(1.78 was achieved without a front sway bar, using the Carrerra coil overs with 351 lb. springs.)

On the rear what I did before boxing them in (sorry I forgot, been a long time since I was volunteering my 2-cents worth.) Take four flange nuts if possible bolt them in place on the rear conrol arms- just the nuts and bolts, Tig or Mig the nuts in place remove the bolts and now you are ready to mount the rear sway bar in place- no clips needed!

Tire pressure adjustments down to the half pound, tire heat, measured at 4 places across all tires immediately after a run, spring pressure changed at a quarter turn at a time, a very professional driver that knew what he was doing and even more, he knew what the car was doing. Changing rear spring height and pressure, running an X'd measure weight ratio running within lbs. of 49/51% with a 190lb driver IN the seat and..running a Viper V10 and T-56 Viper tranny. A Viper engine fully dressed is less weight than a 460 without, water pump, alternator carb, manifold, pressurre plate and clutch assembly, bellhousing, pulley's etc. A viper engine, totally assembeled and "ready" to run with all the above is less than 711lbs-which includes the weight of the crate it comes in! Rear end was 3.55.

DV
PS-Once we dialed in the car (A Double Venom of course), at the end of the first run we burned up #3 bearing, Chrysler knew at once we had pulled 1.3 G's plus. Seems they knew a Viper could not pull over 1.3 without a special oil pan or dry sump! (Geeez, Then they told us.)

Crap!!!

I've all ready boxed in my rear arms, had them powder coated and didn't even think about the sway bar mounting...

Ed