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Old 11-03-2010, 11:02 AM   #22
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to try to eliminate wheel hop, you have to first understand it.

I will try to give a short lesson

Wheel hop is caused when you compress the rear shocks and they come up in a fast rate that when they over power your springs, the springs in return put force back (this is normal) but they over power the shocks and when they uncompress it unloads the rear suspension, so to say. the two fight back and forth sticking/slipping/sticking/slipping. When the tires loose traction, the initial weight transfer you got when you launched your car, reverses itself, as you are not giving that forward momentum anymore, which even further helps unload the rear suspension. then when they hook again, the weight transfer comes back and you go into a vicious cycle until you hit that happy median to where you aren't making the weight transfer go back and forth and the tires can hook. This is why if you do get wheel hop, you should get out of the throttle, because it will keep going and it can take a long time to reach that median.

Putting a sticky tire will allow you to launch higher. then when you launch, the weight is transferred to the back, but then since the tires don't slip, you won't have any wheel hop, as the weight isn't being transferred back to the front at an accelerated rate, and you are keeping the rear suspension loaded.

This past weekend I helped a buddy out with launching his car, and it might help you see what I'm talking about. His only suspension mod is a set of trailing arms (as opposed to the OP who also has a set of lowering springs) but has a stickier set of tires. The car in the video has 200+ more rwhp than the original poster, and has less suspension mods. So according to your theory, he should get massive amounts of wheel hop (well at least more than the original poster)



Notice how the rear suspension stays loaded through the launch, resulting in no wheel hop.

Do not mis-read this and think that the only contributing factor to wheel hop is tires, because it is by far not. But the first step in getting any sort of traction, let alone addressing wheel hop, should always be a set of sticky tires.
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