Magneride for drag racing

[bankyf]

I asked this in the drag forum, but got no response. Hoping someone over here might have some insight.

My car has Magneride and I'm not ready to give it up yet. It's been established that the GT500 shocks and struts are plug and play on a standard magneride GT and have increased dampening. I have a set that I can put on, but I'm wondering if they will help or hurt with launching. Does the stock suspension GT500 60 foot better than a Magneride GT?

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[RiotfunK]

I’d like to know this as well. But wouldn’t you need a new mag ride controller to get the benefits out of the gt500 parts.

 

[bankyf]

I’d like to know this as well. But wouldn’t you need a new mag ride controller to get the benefits out of the gt500 parts.

Apparently you will get increased dampening with the GT controller. I don’t think you can retrofit the GT500 controller, but I’m sure it would have some additional benefits. I do have an aftermarket controller that I could use that’s supposed to work well for drag racing.

 

[robvas]

GT500 isn't exactly known for having a great launch. You can try going to a traditional strut/spring

 

[NGOT8R]

I asked this in the drag forum, but got no response. Hoping someone over here might have some insight.

My car has Magneride and I'm not ready to give it up yet. It's been established that the GT500 shocks and struts are plug and play on a standard magneride GT and have increased dampening. I have a set that I can put on, but I'm wondering if they will help or hurt with launching. Does the stock suspension GT500 60 foot better than a Magneride GT?

Just curious, what are your current sixty-foot times looking like? How much power are you putting down and what tranny do you have?

Like robvas suggested, a shock and spring change out back can give you adjustability too.

I drag race my 2019 Bullitt which has Magneride, but I’ve switched to KellTrac double adjustable rear shocks and drag springs out back (still on the factory Magneride struts and springs up front). I ended up making my own Magneride delete sensors for the rear and they work great (no codes at all, like I was experiencing with SDE sensor deletes).

I haven’t drilled down on my sixty-foot times yet, but I have gotten 1.7’s a few times (lately, usually 1.8s) and I have an MT82-D4 tranny.

 

[bankyf]

Just curious, what are your current sixty-foot times looking like? How much power are you putting down and what tranny do you have?

Like robvas suggested, a shock and spring change out back can give you adjustability too.

I drag race my 2019 Bullitt which has Magneride, but I’ve switched to KellTrac double adjustable rear shocks and drag springs out back (still on the factory Magneride struts and springs up front). I ended up making my own Magneride delete sensors for the rear and they work great (no codes at all, like I was experiencing with SDE sensor deletes).

I haven’t drilled down on my sixty-foot times yet, but I have gotten 1.7’s a few times (lately, usually 1.8s) and I have an MT82-D4 tranny.

Haven’t been to the track. Just finishing up my twin turbo/10R80 build. Prepped for 1000-1100hp. As I mentioned initially, removing magneride is not on the table at this point. I’ll experiment with the magneride controller before I get there. In theory, it should give me comparable adjustment to a drag oriented shock.

 

[NGOT8R]

Haven’t been to the track. Just finishing up my twin turbo/10R80 build. Prepped for 1000-1100hp. As I mentioned initially, removing magneride is not on the table at this point. I’ll experiment with the magneride controller before I get there. In theory, it should give me comparable adjustment to a drag oriented shock.

I gotcha. I don’t doubt you’ll be able to pull some 1.3 short times making that much power. I think Kelly @ KellTrac went 1.4s on a Magneride suspension with about 800 hp.

I’m looking forward to hearing/seeing video of how well your car performs with twins at 1K+ hp and a good short time.

 

[RiotfunK]

Why not use a stiffer mag ride spring out back.
The DSC controller you can create your own parameters I believe. Might be the best bet as you could adjust as needed. I haven’t used one, but have been looking since I want normal throttle mode with sport+ or track suspension mode.

 

[bankyf]

Why not use a stiffer mag ride spring out back.
The DSC controller you can create your own parameters I believe. Might be the best bet as you could adjust as needed. I haven’t used one, but have been looking since I want normal throttle mode with sport+ or track suspension mode.

I have the Steeda adjustable ride height setup in the back that uses coil over springs, so I have a spring that is comparable to what most sell as a rear drag spring and swapping springs isn’t too difficult. The DSC controller is the one I have, but not currently in the car. They insist that it will be all I ever need, just wondering if the GT500 shocks/struts will be beneficial in addition to that controller or if the additional dampening they provide will be irrelevant.

 

[RiotfunK]

I have the Steeda adjustable ride height setup in the back that uses coil over springs, so I have a spring that is comparable to what most sell as a rear drag spring and swapping springs isn’t too difficult. The DSC controller is the one I have, but not currently in the car. They insist that it will be all I ever need, just wondering if the GT500 shocks/struts will be beneficial in addition to that controller or if the additional dampening they provide will be irrelevant.

Why not run the DSC for a bit since its a quick plug and play and see what your comparable times are. If they improve, leave it like it is. If not swap the GT500 stuff in and see if it changes

 

[tj@steeda]

Let me run this by our resident drag racing guru, Scott - standby!

TJ

 

[kz]

I have the Steeda adjustable ride height setup in the back that uses coil over springs, so I have a spring that is comparable to what most sell as a rear drag spring and swapping springs isn’t too difficult. The DSC controller is the one I have, but not currently in the car. They insist that it will be all I ever need, just wondering if the GT500 shocks/struts will be beneficial in addition to that controller or if the additional dampening they provide will be irrelevant.

It willbe beneficial if you run out out of damping force in your current stock damper because they can generate finite amount of it vs. current driving them from the controller. Question is do you ?
I don't know much about drag racing, but if your goal is to make rear stiffer at launch, you can probably drive more compression damping using GT500 dampers (and additionally vary the amount based on speed or set something specific just for the launch itself).

 

[bankyf]

Why not run the DSC for a bit since its a quick plug and play and see what your comparable times are. If they improve, leave it like it is. If not swap the GT500 stuff in and see if it changes

That is probably the best plan, but the rear subframe is currently out and it's just as easy to put the GT500 shocks in now, saving me future work. I'd like to have a good idea as to whether it will be an improvement before I do all the work.

 

[tj@steeda]

I posed this to our internal team & this was their feedback:

It probably won't hurt with launching ... without having tested one, I would think a Magneride car in Drag Mode would be better than a standard GT shock and strut.

Maybe that helps, I don't know

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