I had a conversation with a guy who knows quite a bit about cars. i was asking him why corvettes don't suffer from wheel hop.

He told me that one of the contributors to wheel hop is axle windup. Basically, the axles wind up like torsion bars (springs). When you have the same size axle on both sides, the axles tend to transmit torque to each other through the diff causing a cascading effect )call it a vicious cycle).

The Corvette team fixed this in the C6 by making of the ONE of the halfshafts TWICE as big as the other, ending up with different "spring" rates or harmonic frequencies.

I wonder if this is a possibility on our cars? Maybe if you add a single EVO halfshaft? Or have a drivehsaft shop make a single thicker one?

Has anyone tried this?

 

I believe you will find your wheel hop has everything to do with the spring pressure being used.

 

Never heard of that. In your case, going back to 18"s with a taller side wall will decrease wheel hop

 

This is correct! I found that when i put the MT tires on they have such a soft side wall they absorb a lot of the wheel hop and just lung the car forward.