What did you do to your Hellcat today?

[DGatzby]

Not pretty and not happy. She is going in this week to be returned to the stock springs and its original height, then to get its alignment checked and confirmed on a good machine. Too many clearance problems for the street and potentially driveline components alignment, I cannot get any of my jacks under it without driving it up on some sort of a ramp. Right rear axle will be replaced due to grease seeping, which started after I lowered it. It will be back!
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[2ndAmend]

Nice runs. I launch right above idle. I have tried different ways and found it works best for me flashing the convertor

I don't flash the converter at all by foot braking it I just stab it at idle. I'm hoping the 2 step help with reaction time and 60'. It can't be any more tough than just stabbing it from idle. Also have several tunes for track conditions. Cant wait to give it a try, having to pull the supercharger again is annoying though

Are your cars tuned? I'm running the DC Stage 2. I have to foot brake to get the best 60'. Somewhere around 17-1800 appears to be about right.

 

[Unholy707]

Are your cars tuned? I'm running the DC Stage 2. I have to foot brake to get the best 60'. Somewhere around 17-1800 appears to be about right.

Heavily tuned and modified. I cut a 1.46 60' by just stabbing the gas

 

[vortecd]

Are your cars tuned? I'm running the DC Stage 2. I have to foot brake to get the best 60'. Somewhere around 17-1800 appears to be about right.

Low 9s
Started off mid 10s stock, upper 9s with pulley and e85 then low 9's with a whipple

Best pass came leaving around 1000 1.33 60 foot

 

[DGatzby]

What did I do to it today? Very unusual. Drove in the rain in the Hellcat for the first time in about five years! Had to get it to the damn dealer. Drove in ECO Mode! Wow, if you need to do what I did it became the smoothest and most easy thing to drive than I would have imagined!! It shifted like one of the smoothest luxury cars I have ever driven. Getting the OEM springs back on it today, probably tomorrow or Thursday early I will be assisting with a total alignment to help get the tabs in and out of the AAD arms and connectors. With them running the darn computer etc.

 

[Fullinsurance-semitrailer]

If you can, post up a picture of your rotors. And if you have access to a set of calipers and can measure the rotor thickness, that would help as well. They start out at ~34mm thick and the minimum thickness is 32mm.

Maybe it still works?

 

[BULL]

Maybe it still works?

33mm is good

 

[DGatzby]

Self explanatory! Just had the springs returned to OEM and now we are doing a computer confirmation of an alignment. IT WILL BE ON THE NUTS. I’m running the AAD tabs.😍
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[DGatzby]

Not bad. Bet she burns rubber straight on now.
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[vortecd]

Not bad. Bet she burns rubber straight on now.
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Rear camber looks off. 0.0 -.50 Don't you want the rear the same?

 

[DGatzby]

Rear camber looks off. 0.0 -.50 Don't you want the rear the same?

At that close it did not want to mess with it. I had it on those camber tabs before I lowered it. We just had to do the rear toe, and he made easy work up front on the toe. It took a pair of -1.5mm tabs on the toe arms so that was cool. How do guys set them, exactly the same?

 

[vortecd]

Being the springs were in and out that could have changed it. Going minus 1 (if 5 tab go to 4) on the right side may get you close. I aim for -.25 camber, toe in around .10

 

[DGatzby]

Being the springs were in and out that could have changed it. Going minus 1 (if 5 tab go to 4) on the right side may get you close. I aim for -.25 camber, toe in around .10

Thanks. After I can get some meats on it today, I need to go see how it drives itself forward quickly when asked . No matter what, it CANNOT have that left-right dance when accelerating. It had a major pull one direction in the rear that was NOT cool when my right foot would twitch too quick making the tires spin at low speed. When I get bored this winter, I may slip a different tab in that left side to get the camber close to matching. It will be interesting to see if changing the top arm tab without changing the front arm tab will tip the camber in and leave the toe nearly unchanged. I need to also consider dynamic movements on the road courses as cornering makes things change as the suspension dips to one side only. Otherwise the next tab for the toe arm for more toe-in may off balance it. That is the last thing I need.

The toe tabs we inserted yesterday were the same ones I had in it for several years now, with the camber tabs. That was my first electronic confirmation since aligning myself for years now. I never changed the back springs until this year with those lowering springs. What’s amazing is the rear tire wear both on my street set and especially on the track set with this setting. Absolutely straight across even wear - both sets. Both 345/30’s. Hell I had to replace the street rears due to a lack of bite, they had plenty of thread remaining. Same for the track tires. Replaced them with some sticky Cup 2-R units I need to use!!