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I am replacing all my factory control arm bushings with solid steel bushings, on the front at least the upper control arm bushings went on fairly easy, bolts are tight and they move freely up and down, when we installed the lower bushings they move with less effort than the stock rubber...

I was comparing the 17 as the old tire, going from the small 17" to the larger 27.4" I do have a habit of over thinking seemingly simple things, usually when it involves math.. I hate so many things in math, like the "numbers paradox" the fact that there are as many even (or odd) numbers as...

my brain feels more broken than teased at this point :) I hate the situation of being smart (relatively speaking) enough to ponder a question, but smart enough not answer it, I feel like the answer is right on the tip of my tongue, but still out of reach I keep trying to remove different...

again I should stress, this is all for fun more or less, I am only using my racecar for an example since thats what I have, I could of used my truck I suppose, my only reason for this discussion is simple information gathering, not trying to solve a problem, my racecar is easy.. I stick it in...

A lot of great information here, but the vast majority of it I already know, the question I am asking is more or less superfluous I am not really talking about any car in particular, I am just using what I have for an example and the gears I run in my racecar are what everyone runs at this...

I see what everyone is saying, I am not really trying to solve a problem per se, its just pure curiosity really, right now I have a 6.8796 final in second gear with 27.4" diameter tires, in my case my car turns 5700rpms before I lift, then it drops to about 2500 in the turns, which is about...

you are correct, I did have it backwards in that explanation I gave, I was missing something important lol so let me think about this again, the transmission divides the engine RPMs, so one revolution of the crank turns the input shaft one full turn, but in low gear the driveshaft will not make...

this is the part that has me confused, if you use a "effective gear ratio calculator" and use my gears (2.73) and the other tires I run on my car as the "old" tire which are 26.9 diameter, and my other tires which are 27.4 for the "new" tire,it says I effectively have a 2.68 gear in the rear...

I understand all of this, and this is exactly what I am talking about more or less... just a somewhat useless factor of it I am struggling to explain what I mean and keep it from being extremely convoluted, I know that the gears will not physically change depending on the size of the tire, the...

This is purely for curiosity sake first off, I know how to calculate gear ratios but one this has been bugging me, I don't care about engine RPMs or how it will throw off my speedo etc., I just want a specific number that I cannot seem to get to the "effective" ratio depending on tire size, if...

not trying to come across as a jerk or a know it all, but maybe you should study a little on how gear ratios work, specifically ring and pinions in a rear end, then venture over to the automatic transmission, I suggest "howstuffworks" for a start also, my vote is transmission needs to be...

not sure what they will let us get away with really on the unibody, it will be the only one so far to run the new bomber class here, all a and g-body cars, the rules state that the rollcage is not allowed to "reinforce the body or frame" and is only to serve as driver protection, also says "no...

that it is, 1975 4 door nova, got it for $100 as a roller someone was going to junk, same wheelbase as a 2 door it just has 4 small doors rather than 2 large doors, over building the cage in it a bit for a bomber.. hopefully they don't complain about the way we tied the front subframe into the...

we have been checking the toe about monthly, its never moved until now but we are going to start checking every week as well, I do have a question about caster also, should I try to move it around by staggering shims in the upper a-arm? we are heading to a new track tomorrow for a 4th of July...

rained out the 25th, so we had another 2 week break and TONS of rain thanks to the annoying hurricane, track was unbelievably slippery during warmups, it was a scorching hot day had a weird problem during the warmup as well, a strange "bumping" vibration and very twitchy front end, checked the...