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Originally Posted by Suberman
Full soft is too soft in rebound. That's why you're getting wheel hop. Why did you do that? Unless you can adjust jounce, not usually, changing rebound is silly. There will be an ideal range, very narrow, for rebound setting as this is needed for wheel control. Setting rebound too soft is as bad as setting it too hard. For hard launches you need higher rebound resistance, not lower. You generally set rebound as soft as you can and still maintain wheel contact in bumpy corners, for wet or winter driving. For dry track work you can increase rebound resistance a click at a time until you get no improvement in lap times, highly dependent on track surface and the type of bumps.
IRS is normally pretty much immune to wheel hop. The poster who thinks live axles are better doesn't understand how suspension works.
Leaf springs are worst because the axle actually winds up against the springs and them let's go, traction bars were invented for this reason. More "modern" live axles such as fitted to the new Mustang use multi link design with coil springs partly because live axles are so awful to drive otherwise. The new Mustang doesn't suffer from wheel hop (tramp) due to this sophisticated set up, irony is irs would have been cheaper probably!
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Thanks for the input. I've had rebound mid setting, I took them to full soft as I've taken a new job and traveling quite a bit on rough roads, not as a test for the hop. It hops at mid and soft setting. I'll try firmer settings sometime.