04-28-2009, 11:26 AM
Evan Wrote:interestingly enough, cutting coils off of a spring does in fact increase the spring rate. No, you still shouldnt do it but its not quite as horrible as you may think.
fill in this equation (use a large number like 50000000 for rigidity) and change the number of coils to see how it affects spring rate
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Yep, and youll actually find out when you look at spring rates the APALLING truth about some "sport and lowering springs". I actually found a few under research that had LESS spring rate then the stockers!
Also whats amazing is some companies offer different springs that lower different amounts but use the same effective spring rates. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE never order eibach sportlines.
Ive found mostly across the board on a lot of car forums, and looking at spring rates along with driveability, I would buy H&R sport springs and konis, or H&Rs and stock shocks for a little while. Mitsubishi actually equips their "sports" cars with pretty good shocks. The dampening and rebound on my gsx shocks (yes, they were equipped with different shocks than gsts etc for 2g dsms) actually did really well when matched up to sport springs. Jason is still running my setup.
Anyway, less rambling, go do research!
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