That may still be a sore subject?
2019 Challenger Widebooty HellKitty (she's giving me the meatsweats...)
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That may still be a sore subject?
I looked some specs for the Hellkitty and the weight bias F/B percentage is 57/43. With the weight bias and spring rates I am surprised how well the Hellkitty does. We'd be tring to get rid of some of the front weight and throw some lead on the rear rails to try to even out the F/B weight bias and put the rear spring rate up front and the front spring rate in the rear before we'd put the car on a road course. Ms. Hellkitty must really push in the corners
Before swapping springs front to back, I have to wonder about his wheel rates. If he has mac strut front but a more inbound spring out back, the rates may be closer to square which is still crap but it just seems like we're missing something at face value here.
I don't think we are missing anything, the Hellkitty was marketed for drag racing. I don't know how to set up a car for drag racing but I imagine Dodge engineers set up the car to go down the track and now around it
Demon, 1320 and the Super Stock (but has the same shocks and springs as the standard HC/RE) are the drag cars. Hellkitty and Redeye are GT cars. And the "track focused" car is the Scat Pack widebody (SCCA classes it rather high).
The HC/RE is one big compromise.
There is definite room to improve in the HC up front (lots of dive). I am looking into either the SP front springs, some from KW, or some spring inserts to raise the rate (at a later date).
Redeyes are a bit more front biased because they tend to be loaded and have more standard equipment in the nose. I like to believe my car is a bit better balanced than most.
I could see your car on a road course with longer corners doing really well but these parking lot tracks with their tight short corners aren't suited to the Hellkitty but you are making it work... 🙂
Thanks, but how nice would it be to have it not commit this much weight transfer to the RF and unload the RR?
higher rated front springs would help to not transfer as much cross weight and would take some weight off the RR. I don't know what the spring rating of the front sway bar or the compression and rebound of your shocks are and if you have any control of the settings of your shocks. The other issues is these parking lots are slopped in different areas for water drainage so it's hard to gauge the stance of a car in any particular corner. At one of the circle tracks that has high banks we had an 1100 lbs spring at the right front and 180 lbs in the right rear so the right rear would plant itself coming out of the corner. We had a 135 lbs srping on the LR so that would not put more weight on the LF when hitting the corner. With a high bank we did not need to plant the nose for the front to get some help going around the corner. with low or no banks you want the nose to be planted.
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