Ok first off, even though I'd love to be building a car for track days every weekend, my reality is I live in El Paso, where there are no road courses, and I also don't get much time off to drive else where.

Plus my boss is into drag racing (Blown Alky Dragster and soon a Super Comp too) so I will also be taking it to a straight track. Probably doing that more often than a road course or an auto-x.

Plus it will be my daily driver, though my commute is less than 10 minutes.


I was planning on the Maximum Motorsport Max Grip box, but the a Griggs GR40 of some level with Watts Link set up is temping me too.

Who's set up is better for suited for my situation? Can a set up for the twistys perform consistantly and quickly at a drag strip?

Thanks in advance!

 

You can't go wrong with either. Griggs is a little more race oriented. Thier parts are made heavier for more hardcore applications. Maximum Motorsports parts are still race worthy, but a tad bit more focused for the daily driver or weekend racer. I would choose MM simply because that is what I have been building the car with from the start. I wouldn't do it any different if I were to do it over again. I'm not going to say the Griggs parts are un-needed for your car, but you'd have to weigh cost vs gain over the competator. So basically this; If I were to build a Camaro-Mustang Challenge car or American Iron car, I would seriously mainly consider Griggs. If it were a daily driver I would mainly consider Maximum Motorsports.

 

Do you have the torque arm?

Also why did you go with the Tokicos over the Bilsteins?

 

I don't have a Tq. Arm yet, it's planned for towards that end of this year though. I choose the Tokicos over the bilsteins due to adjustability. I need to be able to have easy adjustment for certain course conditions. I am going to probably get some Koni DAs sooner or later.

 

100 % true, though I think the griggs A-arms are a little spindly for the street and I've seen more than one broken Griggs PHB (squares don't weld as strong as circles in many cases).

Griggs tends to be a little louder in that more N/V/H seems to come through the chassis.

I use MM myself.

I have the TA/PHB, arms, coil overs (bilstein). LOVE the grip from the tq arm. It's insane. Really helps with launches on the street hehe.

Bilsteins are great over a wide range of conditions but if you're wanting to cut serious corners or get the absolute best 60' time then you'll want the Tokico Illumina's. I went bilstein because truthfully I don't care that my suspension is going to hold back my 60' times even if that's the only thing most folks care about. I race on tracks with turns and drive really hard on the street but I'm not competing for prize money so Bilsteins made the most sense for me.

If you're just racing for fun, grab bilsteins. If you want to really hone in on the best times you can in both 1/4mi and corner-carving then grab the Tokico and learn ALL ABOUT suspension tuning. It's a bitch if you don't learn the finer points and try to adjust your way out of shitty handling.