Help on Ladder bar car
I need some advice from a good chassis tuner, or somebody that is going thru the same stuff I am.
I recently changed the engine in my 76 monza, It is a full chassis car 2100 lbs with ladder bar rear end 31.5 x 14 tires, gears are 4.56
We had the car launcing pretty good with the old engine, a 414 sbc with about 600 hp. the ladder bar is at the bottom hole and it launced the car in the air possibly 25 inches and carried it thru the 60 foot. It had a turbo 400 three speed in it.
Now we have changed the engine to a new 436 with aproximatly 825 hp ( I built it an dfigured my numbers thru head flow so aprox. only, also we had put a rons flying toilet on it.
Now on to the first launches, we attempet to launch it at 4500 rpm, the car took off the line and started to go sideways , with a little correction it went thru the 1/8 ok
60 foot was 1.17 sec.
we had done some work to it, chaged the shocks for dual adjustable etc. and tried to set the rear end up paralell to the chassis, ( it was a bit off )
We recenly went to the track, just to practice the launches and tune it in.
I also changed the launch rpm to 4200 to mellow out the violent initial launch.
It helped quite a bit, although the car , as usual looses a bit of traction on the drivers side which makes the car veer sideways a bit. We tried stiffening the passenger side to try to take some of the engine torqe off the passenger side and transfer it to the drivers. It works a little.
I am just wondering where to go from here ? I don't get theat muh track time and need some guidence.
any help really appreciated.
thank all
Al