Wart said:
Don't even think of playing this game with me.
Why not? Because you lose that game everytime you try to play it with me?
In all my years of building performance cars, I never thought I'd hear people tell someone to NOT put a posi in an open diff car for traction, but to rather try to get the car to hook on one wheel first. It still blows my mind that anyone can think that way.
Would you tell a runner to leave one shoe in the closet and try to perfect hopping on one foot first and then compete against other runners with two shoes?
If you have a car that has 200hp, why would you want to transfer all that hp to one wheel instead of equally between two? All that wheel has to do is spin once off the line, and all the power gets transferred from planting the car to spinning the wheel. And try to "dial in" a one leg car? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Let's see.. let me set up HALF my rear
suspension to plant one tire, while the other side of the car has zero grip on the track, and I'm pushing up on one side of the chassis. That's a great way build a car that pulls to one side off the line, if it has any power.
There are a lot of factors that going into building a proper rear
suspension. Pinion angle, instant center, point of intersect, and other angle settings are very important. Adjustable shock settings are very important. But before you even get to that level of setting up your rear
suspension, you need to have the basics done. And the basics are having the proper gear ratio for your combo, a proper locking type differential, and a proper rear tire size and compound to hold the power level you are using.
If you look at Detroits own recipie for high performance, you'll find that almost all factory muscle cars came with posi or locker rear ends. I mean actual performance models, not the cars where someone ordered a hemi in a plain Dart or something. Bosses, Machs, SCJs, Drag pack cars, Cobra Jets, etc. Even all the other brands as well. Same goes for modern day. Even a stock 5.0 came with traction lock rear. You don't build a car that goes fast with an open diff.
I'm still amazed that we are debating this subject.