Anyone have luck with suspension airbag?

[forbanger]

The one you install in the pass side spring.

For the past couple of years I have had traction issues that I can't figure out. Cars ass end tends to screech to the right when launching at the track.

I've only gone to the track 3 times (5 passes) this year always with the same results. I don't think the car is even that powerful, yet I blows the tires off every single time. Best 60' is 1.8xx hitting 11.2 in the 1/4. I kinda gave up after that thus only going to the track 3 times this year.

Car is a fox body with an auto. rear suspension consist of mac upper and lower non adjustable control arms w/ poly bushings, stock springs. tires were 275/40/17 mt et streets radials but now I have 26x11.5x15 et street bias. I have only used the bias twice with the same results.

Since it is winter I am trying to figure whether I should just sell the car in spring or work on it during winter.

Like most car nuts, I worked from the front going to the rear. Next time It will be the opposite.

Thanks in advance for any opinions!

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[blck10th]

i used them in my IRS and they worked great. they helped out a ton. i had one in both springs. ran 14 on the pass side.

 

[Dana]

in answer to your original question, I have been using an air bag on the pass side since I installed te SRA. The car stays level on launch and launches reasonably straight. The bag is set to 15#.
I run 1/2 pound more air in the pass side tire too.
That doesn't really sound like your problem though. What air pressure are you running in the tires?

 

[forbanger]

I've tried 16 down to 12psi.

Big burn out, small burn out, mid burn out.....I'm burnt out. lol!

Could it be my diff? Although it still feels tight when I turn though.

 

[forbanger]

here a vid: I got the white car

http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee307/forbanger/?action=view&current=MVI_1352.flv

 

[01bluesnake]

Have bags on both sides in my cobra. I run the driver about 5psi and passenger at 15psi, this also with a SRA and auto but off the foot brake. I now hook good with the m/t radial's at the track, they are 275/60R15.

 

[IZZy]

If you are blowing off ET steets you have some other issue that a air bag won't fix, what rpm are you launching at? Foot brake or transbrake?

Is the car lowered?

 

[Bigturbonotch]

What shocks in the car

 

[forbanger]

footbrake at 2400 anymore than that I would just do a burnout.

Car is not lowered at all. stock springs in rear and coilovers in the front. Front and rear height is about the same. 70/30's and 50/50's.

 

[forbanger]

Oh never used the trans brake.

 

[Bigturbonotch]

Cut a few coils off the rear to get ride height down, stock springs work well with a few coils cut

 

[IZZy]

I would recommend a set of adjustable shocks/struts, I run strange 10ways and I set the fronts to full loose and the rears to 1 or 2 that way I have the best weight transfer.

Getting an airbag might help too, I run one on the passenger side.

 

[forbanger]

I think I have found the problem by accident.

Moving stuff around the garage and leaned on the driver side front fender, the car didn't move down at all. I went to the pass front and pushed on the fender and I goes up and down fairly easy (push pass front down and the driver rear reacts). Did it again on the drivers side and the thing is hard as a rock (front wont come down so pass rear wont do anything). Something is binding in there I just got to figure out what.

All this time I have been messing with the rear and the front suspension may be the problemh:

 

[Shane97Cobra]

Hopefully that fixes your problem. I had good luck with the airbag until I got into the 1.4x 60' range. Even at 30 psi it wouldn't keep the car from rolling over to that side.