Drag Setup Buy Any Parts Needed

[MJTru]

I have a gtst I just finished building. It has about 600 hp to the wheels.

I can't seem to get the car to hookup. Looking at the suspension I know that's the problem. It's lowered and my rear wheel camber is off a lot. I don't have coil overs just some lowering springs on stock what looks like to be shocks.

I'm looking in the near future to go with a 3 speed power glide tranny and do my rear suspension to accommodate the new setup. I've been doing a lot of reading up, but can't seem to find a hands down drag set up for the rear suspension online. Years back when I tried to do the same thing before I got the GTR and my whole out looked changed I met a mate on here that gave me a specific set up with rear Blisten shocks and springs along with some institutions as to what camber and hight the car has to be. He mentioned that he had an r32 RWD gtr with about 1100hp. He sent photos and all. He said that the setup worked well in a R32 body and should work well in my R33 to. From what I can remember the hight of the car needed to be 365mm from the center of the rear wheels and so forth. The specs on the shocks and spring are lost and gone.

Well after years I'm now facing the same problem. Traction in a R33 gtst. Can anyone point me in the right direction please.

[MJTru]

It's the car on the right as you can see the camber is off. Oh. I have already down graded the rear brakes and at will I can use my set of M/T et drag tires and rims.

[GTSBoy]

365mm is not far below stock, and would be appropriate for drag.

You want not very stiff springs......so maybe 5kg/mm, and you want dampers that are soft on compression, firmer on rebound. In the old money these used to be called 90/10 dampers (although, in the old money, and being drag racers, they used the term "shocks", not knowing what the hell they were actually talking about).

At the front you want dampers that are soft on rebound and firmer on damping.

You should look into changing the angle of the rear subframe to enhance traction. It doesn't do a whole lot, but it helps a little.

Close to zero camber, and a little toe-in at the rear will be about all there is to it. Beyond that you are talking about using adjustable traction rods to control the camber change (a bit) with suspension compression.

Be aware that R chassis cars are just not really interested in hooking up for drag. Ultimately you need a tyre that can give you good traction whilst spinning.