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fuel749:
Just out of curiosity, what's the reason you'd like to put front suspension on your car?

wideopen231:
Same thing. Curiosity. If I was a cat I would have died 5 times using 9 lives at a time and curiosity  would have killed me all of them.

Seriously. Being a bracket car and at times having to be on binders I am trying to make car more stable and remove some of the top end bounce. Plus If I can make it keep the front wheels in beams a little longer and no pulli ng up It might keep a -001 from  being red too early button release.

 I have talked with two guys who have Diamond built RED with similar front deal.They both say best car they have ever driven. I am trying to make this a  easy swap back if it does not work and doesn't scuff my paint job,LOL

fuel749:
Keeping the tires in the beams was what I was thinking.  Before I started building cars ( I started with bracket RED's)  I spent a lot of time watching them on the starting line just for that reason.  They tended to snap the front tires up real quick and set them down just as fast which seemed to cause erratic lights.

The first couple RED's I built were pretty typical and had similar issues.  I played with letting the front half have some sag on a couple of them hoping to give it time to go forward while it was taking the sag out of the front half and it seemed to help.  The last 2 I built i freed up all the uprights and crossmembers in the front half and those cars would leave the starting line with the left front 4" off the ground and the right never leaving the asphalt.  They were dead consistent on the tree after that.

tcoupekyle:
My car is a slip joint chassis and it leaves similar left front up right front down. Also it's pretty much a Cadillac on the top end. Know it's not the same as suspension but that's the idea.

wideopen231:
Kyle,

 What I am trying to do is incorporate both. Going to try slip joint with shock for control.  Question does slit joint being loose effect steering at all that you can tell?

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