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wannafbody
post Jul 15 2009, 11:09 PM
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How do you know what the perfect spring rate is for a car? How do you know if the car is under or over springed?
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post Jul 18 2009, 01:26 PM
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Here's an example. My TA has 1LE front springs and stock rear springs with Strano revalves on the front and 3rd gen Koni's. On street tires it was turning times 2.5 seconds slower than a C4 Vette with electronically controlled Bilsteins on R compounds. His best run was 40.something and my car turned a 42.5. My car is less than an ideal setup since it has hardly any negative camber and a stock ride height(we were running 44 PSI cold in the front).

I'm reading of guys who AX Miatas who are claiming that stock springed cars are turning better times than cars with $1500 coilovers.

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wannafbody   underspringing and overspringing a car...   Jul 15 2009, 11:09 PM
GlennCMC70   trial and error. different tracks and surfaces dic...   Jul 15 2009, 11:28 PM
Unbalanced Engineering   Like Glenn said, it really depends on application....   Jul 15 2009, 11:58 PM
wannafbody   Can you corner weight a vehicle and match the spri...   Jul 16 2009, 01:26 AM
GlennCMC70   idea grip? if so, then we would assume a road race...   Jul 16 2009, 02:32 AM
00 Trans Ram   Be prepared to change the rates. Here's just a...   Jul 16 2009, 01:39 PM
mitchntx   QUOTE (00 Trans Ram @ Jul 16 2009, 08:39 ...   Jul 16 2009, 02:22 PM
00 Trans Ram   QUOTE (mitchntx @ Jul 16 2009, 09:22 AM) ...   Jul 16 2009, 06:33 PM
wdtiger   QUOTE (00 Trans Ram @ Jul 16 2009, 10:33 ...   Jul 18 2009, 08:31 AM
Unbalanced Engineering   As Matt stated, how bumpy your tracks are and how ...   Jul 16 2009, 02:04 PM
codename Bil Doe   Also, tuning for autox and tuning for road racing ...   Jul 16 2009, 04:42 PM
wannafbody   Here's an example. My TA has 1LE front springs...   Jul 18 2009, 01:26 PM

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