

They want to know what caster, camber, and toe-in settings are, and they want to know how the car will behave if you adjust those settings one way or the other. They want real, reliable information from a professional that can be used to make adjustments to their car when it doesn’t do what it should have on the track. Most racers do not want to see a lot of graphs and equations telling them how to find the amount of energy in a spring. This guide is written as a comprehensive, hands-on approach with real-world answers to everyday problems and questions about door slammers. Most manuals get too technical - so technical, in fact, that the majority of racers wind up more confused after reading them than they were before they started. "Our goal in writing this chassis tuning guide is to provide a tool that everyone can use with ease. Other information includes squaring up the car, driveline and pinion angle, rear suspension, anti-squat, anti-roll bars, wheelie bars, shocks and springs, front suspension, transmission mounts, driveshafts, brakes, parachutes, wheels and tires, aerodynamics, spoilers and splitters, how to scale your car, center of gravity, track and weather conditions, and time slips, chassis setup sheets and more!

Hundreds of diagrams and photographs are used throughout the book to offer a comprehensive, hands-on approach to tuning drag race door slammers.

With over 50 years of drag racing experience the Joneses cover everything from the proper way to haul your drag race car to the importance of utilizing data acquisition in this second edition of The Rick Jones Chassis Tuning Guide. Inside this 100-page book you'll learn tons of information and tips from authors Rick Jones & Rickie Jones. New 2017 Second Edition authored by Rick Jones & Rickie Jones.
