Spring rates
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Spring rates
Next year I plan on autocrossing my '04 Civic EX in either DSP or STS with the SCCA and I am trying to find out the Stock spring rate and what would be a good spring rate for the car in competition and not make the ride to rigid for street use. Thanks for all your help.
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Re: Spring rates (Pete W.)
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I did a search earlier today and could not find what I was looking for so I was hoping that some one here had any idea. And on a side note did you know that google will only show you 48 pages of search results and in those 48 pages google couldn't find what I was looking for!
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Re: Spring rates (Pete W.)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Pete W. »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what would be a good spring rate for the car in competition and not make the ride to rigid for street use. </TD></TR></TABLE>
That's the ol proverbial having your cake and eating it, right there.
It also depends on personal perference, but a good competition spring rate, even the relatively mild one for an STS car is quite brutal for daily driving.
Start out 500f/500r and go from there.
That's the ol proverbial having your cake and eating it, right there.
It also depends on personal perference, but a good competition spring rate, even the relatively mild one for an STS car is quite brutal for daily driving.
Start out 500f/500r and go from there.
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Start out 500f/500r and go from there.</TD></TR></TABLE>
That's close to what some of my buddies have suggested. But I have talked to a couple of manufactures all they have been able to tell me is that their springs are about 15 to 40% stiffer than the stock springs and with out knowing what the stock spring rate is I am completely lost.
Start out 500f/500r and go from there.</TD></TR></TABLE>
That's close to what some of my buddies have suggested. But I have talked to a couple of manufactures all they have been able to tell me is that their springs are about 15 to 40% stiffer than the stock springs and with out knowing what the stock spring rate is I am completely lost.
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Re: Spring rates (Pete W.)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Pete W. »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">But I have talked to a couple of manufactures all they have been able to tell me is that their springs are about 15 to 40% stiffer than the stock springs </TD></TR></TABLE>
That information is completely useless.
Pick a spring rate and test. If you dont like it, you can easily change the springs (if you're using Ground-control sleeves) and test some more. Wash, rinse, repeat
The info already posted on this forum will give you a rough idea where to start from.
That information is completely useless.
Pick a spring rate and test. If you dont like it, you can easily change the springs (if you're using Ground-control sleeves) and test some more. Wash, rinse, repeat
The info already posted on this forum will give you a rough idea where to start from.
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