whats everyone opinion on leafsprings to 3 link in a pro stock class or similar class. what are the pro's and con's of each?

Do people feel one is more competive then the other or have an unfair advange?

Alot of it will depend on track rules for the 3 link, also drivers driving style.

propit21 wrote on 12/10/10 at 2:14pm:


I think the above is probably true. I guess you just have to decide what you want out of it. I'm getting older, I enjoy going around and talking to people about as much as racing, but I still want to be fast when I get in the car. I enjoy the ease of the leaf cars. It also helps that David Hays at A-1 Springs will rework our springs any time we think they need it. We rarely go more than 3 races without having David re-arch at least our RR springs.

Lowering blocks in both cases. They make an adjustable one for the rear steer, and then we just put a bigger or smaller one in for wedge. As I said I do very little adjusting, so at the track I just use the front Bite Bolts.

seems like alot more work and money to run a leaf car competitvely vs. a coil car. but my opinion is probably one sided considering ive never ran a leaf car. imo a coil car is easier to adjust to a track but you can easily adjust yourself out of competition easily to

why dont you guys leaf spring the left side, and coil the right side? just an idea

SawyerRacing98 wrote on 12/23/10 at 6:36pm:

I did the opposite several years ago. I had a leaf on the RR and a coil and trailing arm on the LR with a long panhard bar. Worked very well in all conditions. Would have been even better if the RR had been a Mono leaf and not a multi leaf

propit21 wrote on 12/23/10 at 9:58pm:

That pic probably aint goin away very soon huh?- lol

I guess in the end, it doesn't matter if your running a coil or a leaf car. When you show up at a WCSS event you better have your A game on. I'm lucky, Chris brought out the sign at the end of the year, so I get some air time with it over the winter. Unfortunately that air time may run out at any minute when racing resumes!

propit21, I have run both coil & leaf type cars. I use to think the leaf cars were favored in the rules as well, however I run a leaf type suspension now and feel very different now. The leaf cars do very well on heavy/tacky and sometimes rough tracks but when the track goes dry it is a different story, there isn't much adjustment to a leaf car @ the track as lee pointed out, I will add that stagger is also a quick remedy for a leaf car @ the track. The coil cars seem to do well on both heavy/tacky/dry and smooth tracks but don't like the rough, however they are much more adjustable @ the track when you can change bar angle/length, spring rate, rear bite in just minutes IMHO.
The coil cars are very forgiving to a drivers style as well & the leaf cars are very sensitive to a drivers style & not very forgiving, it always seemed to me that I was searching for LR bite in a coil car with solid/clamped links & I am always trying to gain RR bite in my leaf car, Maybe it's just me   anyway that's my 2 cents