brooklynspeed3
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is there anything i can do for my wheel hop. When im boosting instead of spinning tires and hearing alil screetch all i get is bounce. What do i need to do. i thought it might need better suspension. Thanks!!
Tired Of The Wheel Hop!!!
- Thread starter brooklynspeed3
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Too funny, yeah just strap her ass to the hood !!
coololddude
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probably need a WRX conversion.
brooklynspeed3
Member
haha no thanks!
john blutarski
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mazdaspeedster3
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- Mazdaspeed3. 2008
Just the MM cured wheel hop for me...
Truth be known, the real culprit for our wheel hop is the low aspect ratio tires and the big rims in a front wheel drive car with our suspension geometery, not the mounts. Members of this board who are regularly racing their cars at the strip are going down to 16 inch rims and drag radials or tires with a lot more sidewall. The "taller" sidewalls of drag radials or even 60 series aspect ratio tires absorb the shock and wheel hop goes away.
Those posters claim that while the harder MM's do nothing to tame wheel hop, although they help a great deal with making that 2-3 shift a lot easier.
The hop is due to the nature of our FWD suspension geometry. Example:
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4468997&postcount=275 Read the whole thread to get the full context.
It's not practical to run 16's with tall sidewalls on the street and screw up our great handling in the corners. So, some wheel hop is going to be inevitiable. The best way to minimize it on stock wheels and tires is to feather the throttle to try to keep the tires just at the break away point with minimal wheel spin in first and second before hammering to shift point in third and up.
Those posters claim that while the harder MM's do nothing to tame wheel hop, although they help a great deal with making that 2-3 shift a lot easier.
The hop is due to the nature of our FWD suspension geometry. Example:
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4468997&postcount=275 Read the whole thread to get the full context.
It's not practical to run 16's with tall sidewalls on the street and screw up our great handling in the corners. So, some wheel hop is going to be inevitiable. The best way to minimize it on stock wheels and tires is to feather the throttle to try to keep the tires just at the break away point with minimal wheel spin in first and second before hammering to shift point in third and up.
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launch in Reverse.
brooklynspeed3
Member
sure show me how its done!! smart ass lol
brooklynspeed3
Member
good info thanks
this just emphasizes how badly darkstar motorsports needs to make replacement lca bushings for the ms3.
hello darkstar are you listening??
holy dead-thread revival.
Yeah I also been tried of wheel hop, so I did a search and found not much. So I figured I can see if any one had a update.
Bryan.Mckinlay
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Exhaust O-Pipe, Sealed muffler bearings and Mugen blinker fluid should solve your problems 
SOrry... I had to..... forgive me
SOrry... I had to..... forgive me
Race Roots
Member
We are a victim of this as well, we have the complete SU Motor Mount set on our Project car and we still get vicious wheel hop.
A real solution is in the near future.
Thanks for searching!