I have the original "skunkworks" springs on my CRX (before they change the name to skunk2 for the people who dont know). Right now I have my illuminas on #4 to give me a decent ride.. i'm thinking #4 is pushing the struts a little to hard just to get 'streetable' type of ride quality. I want to know the spring rates of my skunkworks springs because i'm thinking of going with something a little heavier for the front.

Also, maybe i should have asked this first: What settings are you guys using on your illuminals? my thinking is that 4 should be really agressive on a stock/bseries CRX?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">How do I tell what my spring rates are?

Ground Control sells Eibach Race Springs (ERS) which are labelled by 3 different values in the following convention: length . diameter . spring rate. However, ERS will come labelled in either Metric (mm.mm.N/m) or English (inchx100.inchx100.lbs/inch) units. 180.64.61 is the same thing as 700.250.350. The conversion from Metric to English is (/.254, /.254, x5.7) "/" means "divide by", "x" means "multiply by". </TD></TR></TABLE>

i got off my lazy *** and did a search....

http://www.norcalcrx.org/tyson/coilover.html#03 &lt;-- great link!


Still want to know what setting is typical with illuminas... anybody?

 

whats up man. i have the civic skunk2 coils on my crx. and the fronts i have like7 full turns of pre tention on the front springs. the rears dont have any pretention. on the street i roll around with the front on 2 and the back on about 4. car handles a million times better than before when i didnt have pre tension on the front. oh yea and even with the pre tension on the front i am still pretty low. another plus about the pre tension is i have not hit my brand new dc sports 4-1 header at all.

 

oh **** sorry im not running the originaly skunkworks springs. i am running the skunk2's but either way i wouldnt change them for anything.

 

can you tell us what exactly is written on the "skunkworks" springs? im curious.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Tyson &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">can you tell us what exactly is written on the "skunkworks" springs? im curious.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yep! i'll be doing a complete checkover of my car this afternoon because i'm going for an alignment.. so i'll jot down the #'s

 

700.250.350
700=7 Inches tall 250= 2.5" in diamater 350=350lb/in (spring rate)
My Hatch spring rates are 400F450R on Off the Shelf Koni Sports

180.64.61 = Metric measurements

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mamaboy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My Hatch spring rates are 400F450R on Off the Shelf Koni Sports

180.64.61 = Metric measurements</TD></TR></TABLE>

haha.. i have no problem converting that stuff.. just never had to deal with it before so didn't know what those #'s were..

how do you like 400F, 450R? and what engine do you have?