shabah210 wrote:Thanks for all the replys. I will be doing some reading and will work on the bigger swaybar and negative camber up front.
I have raced a 92 Grand Prix with the 3.4 DOHC engine in 5 Lemon races (Petty Crapheap Experience). Its a very different set up than that of the JB Weld team. They have a newer model a 97 Grand Prix (we have pitted next to them, they have an awesome car, but little applies to this model).
Our car handled so bad the first couple of races that most of our drivers could not keep it on the road. It had lots of power, but that tail wanted to come around if you turned while on the brakes, and really could only be saved with throttle. (I actually liked driving it this way, but my other drivers could not get a handle on it) It took a few races for me to get the handling worked out for them. We did put the car through a weight reduction. Cutting out the inside door panels, cutting the panels on the inside in front of the rear tires, and removing from the trunk all of the brackets and lifting devices as well as the sheet metal supports, and removing the bracing on the hood. All of this gave us an additional 120 lbs of weight savings above what we got out of getting rid of the interior.
To make the car handle better, we stiffened the rear by adding a much larger new rear sway bar that we got off of ebay. Then I took some Miata springs and put them on the rear struts which we held up with exhaust clamps on the strut itself. This completely made the car neutral, and very easy for any of my drivers to handle it. There are some kits out there that get rid of the leaf spring completely, but cost made it prohibitive.
The rear camber can also be adjusted with Ingalls cam bolts. The front is in dire need of camber adjustment, but we did not find a solution for this. We found that our front tires got really chewed up on the outside edges. This car has a strut that is captured and built into the hub, that can only adjusted with camber plates that I only know of one company that makes such a set up. But that gets really expensive and would have the judges all over you. Here is a link
http://www.overkillengineeringmotorspor … body2.html