70 LS1

Last week there was a car show at work and I was able to take my car. There was a 61, 64, 68, my 1970, 94 and a C6. The C6 looked awesome except for the very short overhang in the front. Reminded me of newer European cars with the front wheels almost up against the bumper. It was lightly raining as it always does near Seattle. Even in the rain, the big Kumhos worked great. I have a few suspensions issues to sort out so I couldn't push it. Mostly worn out shocks, ball joints and tie rods.

On to my question. On one of the straight sections of road, I punched it from a rolling start to spin the tires a little (cause I am really just a kid at heart) and got horrible wheel hop. Felt like the whole back end was going to rattle right off. Would this be fixed with new shocks? Is this a common problem with C3's?

thanks

exdrag77

Sounds like bad rear shocks or possibly bad control arm bushings.

Lt1er

For lower priced shocks that really work try these. You can order them out of www.summitracing.com

here's where you can look at Kby gas adjust shocks.

http://www.kyb.com/products/

SmokedTires

I have very good shocks and my suspension is completely rebuilt and I still get wheel hop if I overpower the rearend too aggressively. I've heard of some people that get it and others that don't

gkull

Mike - I have never in 30+ years of Vette driving do I ever remember wheel hop.

Maybe it has something to do with manual transmissions being more directly connected to the tires than an automatic. I use KBY #KG5501 rear and a stiff spring.

I should add that I had some severe wheel hop cars. One was my V-8 Vega. It was so bad that the only cure was rear air shocks with a common pressure line and pumped up to near max. I don't know if it really fixed the problem or just tranferred enough weight forward to just let the tires smoke instead of inducing wheel hop.

LFZ

I too have new shocks, springs, poly bushings in my rear, and still got wheel hop bad with the old 350 engine. Isn't there a torque arm or something like this for sale to help with hop, like on F-body cars.??

gkull

Redshark6974 - I have a poly bushing installed above the front of my pumpkin. They do make a drag racing torque arm for our IRS, I don't know how well it works

Wheel hop on a leaf spring car is caused buy the leaf spring winding up and releasing. Our Vette IRS is a different animal. It could only be induced with loose fitting old parts or lack of shock dampning.

danboback

Excuse the stupid question, but what exactly is wheel hop?

SmokedTires

Excuse the stupid question, but what exactly is wheel hop?


It's when the tires shake badly going up and down very rapidly

Gkull I have the chrome adj Carrera shocks, but it happened before with the shocks I got with the car also. It could be the manual transmission, never thought of that. The last time I had my car out, I nailed the throttle in 2nd while rolling and got severe wheel hop, shakes the whole car quite violently

Gordonm

I have only gotten it at the drag strip. Sometimes quite bad. I have replaced the shocks with Bilstiens but have not been back to the strip. Sticky tracks seem to make it worse.

75rag4sp

The only time I got it was at Atlanta drag way and it was BAD....felt like the whole rear end was going to shake loose. I have noticed that wheels spin up much smoother now that I changed the spring, sway bar, shocks and strut rods. . Which one solved the problem? I cant be sure.

70 LS1

So it sounds like it should clear up or at least not be as bad with the new shocks. I still can't decide between the bilsteins or something else.
thanks

TTop Tony

I had some bad wheel hop on my car. When Bilsteins went on sale I got a set and now I don't have a hint of wheel hop. Might have just been the bad old shocks but my Bilsteins seemed to make a difference

75rag4sp

I really like the Blisteins that came with the VBP kit.