is it worth chaining down the front for lake racing?

[Sno_Racer_Xtreme]

doing some racing the other day and a bunch of people there had their front end chained right to the ground. Is this a big help? and if i do it on my 2001 srx how exactly should i do it?

 

[JeepTherapy]

if your going to do that why not just take the darn shocks out and put a steel shaft in.... but I guess I don't understand the reasoning.

 

[Danger Dog]

Well when you lower the front you don't take away all the suspension travel. Leave 3/4" of shock shaft showing and this will give you about 2" of travel. It allows you to put more track on the ground and more of the weight on the rear suspension. Better hook up!

 

[Sno_Racer_Xtreme]

any idea how exactly i should do this?? like where do i connect the chains for best results and everything like that.

thanks

 

[mrviper700]

its alot easier to just back off the spring tension and it will lower the sled, take a peice of duct tape and wrap around the top of shock to keep spring collar in place then simply bolt a peice of nylon strap on each bolt and this limits it from coming all the way up. The rear is same way, just back off the spring tension and it will lower right down. And you can also double stack the bottom of the transfer rod spacers it will squat the rear right down real quick.

The whole thing your trying to achieve is more track on the ground, so lay down beside the sled and lower the front and rear to get the most track to lay flat on the ground at 1 time.