I'm build up a car thats gonna have a 355 w/ an STS but it will be a weekend drive car and a couple times a month will be bracket racing at the local drag strip. So based on this would I be better going towards an autoX type set up or a drag racing set up?

 

a couple times a month seems like enough to consider it a drag car. and bracket racing is all about consistency...which a properly set up suspension will help achieve.

i say drag suspension

 

thansk your very much. Thats what i was think i just didn't want it so set up for drag and it handle poorly on the twist and turn roads up to the lake on the weekends.

 

slp suspension

 

Drag cars handle like ***, but launch well. Cars that handle can launch well, provided that's part of the plan from the start.

I have a customer who has a full autox setup car. Everything I have on mine and some more. He can cut low 1.7's all the time, and doesn't do a single thing to change the setup toward dragging. He doesn't soften the front shocks, doesn't unhook the 35mm bar, nothing. All he does is slap some 275 drag radials on the car. If he did some of those things, and/or ran 315 drag radials, we're talking a 1.6 car easily.

Unless the car is trailered and really a drag car, the street should be the primary concern. You said you want the car to handle well. And you'll be bracket racing, not heads-up racing. So whatever you have needs to be consistent, not the most axle twisting setup known to man.