I was curious what kind of short times people were able to get out of the stock suspension setup but with a good tire (ET Street, ET Drag, BFG Drags, etc.)

I am just trying to figure out if I am going to need to look into ordering the drag coilovers and removing my front sway bar to 60 ft like I want.

Any info would be appreciated!

-Ethan

 

BTW, I am talking about on a 3rd gen.

-Ethan

 

What is a 'short time'? And what do you mean, "removing my front sway bar to 60 ft like I want"?

 

A short time is a 60-ft time, and removing your front sway bar allows your car to transfer weight to the back harder when you launch so you 60-ft harder.

-Ethan

 

Please explain how the hell a sway bar that restricts lateral weight transfer can have anything to do with longitudinal weight transfer.

The stock suspension is fine, although you may want to pick up a set of aftermarket trailing arms. People are running well below the 2.0 mark on the stock suspension with DRs or M/T Streets. Look up posts from Boostn7, he has run in the 10s on the stock twins with 1.5 or 1.6 60' times. Check out his setup.

 

I don't know how it works, I just know it works.

It is a VERY common trick on all RWD cars for drag racing.

The Supra community just recently started doing it (that is the community I just came from). I know my mechanics shop supra went from 1.52 60s with it still on the car down to 1.44 60s with that being the only suspension mod they did. Almost every domestic driver who wants to focus on drag racing does it, it is just taking most of the import world a while to catch up and start doing it.

-Ethan

 

http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/69818/

Ebanks, there is a time slips section at the top of the 3rd gen forum. There is another RX-7 forum out there that has a whole section devoted to time slips.