good springs for drag racing but not a huge tradeoff for a DD?

Coilovers is the way to go when it comes to drag racing and being street friendly . I run 10 way adjustable struts up front with 175lb front springs and it's fine on the Street

 

They have a knob on the bottom for adjusting the rebound and you can adjust the ride height to have the car slammed for street duties and bring it up for the track in minutes . It's how I had to do it for the stance I like on the street . My cars now actually about 2" higher in the front

 

Yeah a Strange shock/strut combo and 10-175 springs up front is the way to go. Rides great.

 

Yeah a 10-175 will allow you to literally put your car on the ground. My sig pic was with my coilovers not even adjusted halfway down. I'd keep stock springs in the rear and not go coilovers.

 

Take his advice we both run Coilovers in the rear the ride quality isn't as nice and the mods needed to go as low as we sit it's more of a headache

 

Running adjustable shocks/struts on all four corners will allow you to run a lower spring rate and maintain decent dd capabilities. When driving on the street, tighten the shocks up, so its not bouncy. When at the strip, loosen the fronts up to allow the front to rise easily. If the car spins, start loosening the rear shocks up to absorb some of the shock off the line. Running the coilovers in the front will allow you to have a nice looking ride height for the street, but when it comes track time, you can raise the front height to help weight transfer to the rear tires. Ever wondered why the old gassers sat higher in the front than they did in the rear. There are two ways to have an adjustable ride height in the rear. The first is with coilovers. This approach also offers more ride hieght adjustabilty. The second method, is to use weight jacker lower control arms. This allows the vehicle to be lowered 1 inch using stock springs, and raising it 2 inches higher than stock ride height. If you use a different spring that lowers the car also, this will drop it even further and allow you enough adjustment to still return it to stock ride hieght. As for the front, coilovers and adjustable struts are the way to go.

 

For weight jacking lower control arms, Id stick with MM or J&M. I personally have the J&M, which were a little less expensive, but the quality of them are great. They even have a zerk fitting to grease the adjustable spring perch, and mounts for a rear sway bar. Nice welds and they are beefy as hell. For shocks, I run single adjustable 12 way QA1's in the rear. I also have the eibach drag springs in the rear. As for the front coilover setup, I dont feel comfortable recomending any specific brand. There are too many different kinds of coilover setups out there. Some struts have the coil spring perch built into the strut body, and some use sleeves that slip over the strut body and use the bottom strut mounts to hold it in place. The later of the kits, can be used on stock style struts.