dewey

alignment

shotiable

mmmmmmmm springs for breakfast! but seriously can someone give feedback on spoon springs?

f20milo

Bump for good thread!

samura1

Great post with lots of good info, but I still have 2 quesitons....

1. What is the ride height of the CR suspension (springs and shocks)?
2. What is the benefit of having stiffer spring rates in the front vs the rear?


I'm looking to upgrade my current setup (Koni Yellows/RSR-Ti2000) for DD and occasional track use.

Thanks!

shotiable

just to put this out there, i'm reading the sport compact car magazine and they said that the CR's suspension is 392 lb/in in front and 342/lb/in in the back

Errrrk

Anybody tried putting on the eibach pro-kit backwards? Are the springs the same height/size front and back? Because all of the aftermarket springs are more stiff in the rear. A recent SCC article showed the CR working all but an s2k race car. So with the eibach front on the rear and rear on the front, you would have very similar spring rates to the CR, but with a nice 1" drop.

Any reason why I shouldn't try it?

f20milo

just installed my Espelir ASD's. looks sick, ill post up picks later when im not lazy and i go take some pics...lol

Hockey

Awesome. That would help out the rest of the gang alot.

-Hockey

RED MX5

With a 1" drop the car can be aligned to the factory specs.
How much camber do you want?

RED MX5

[QUOTE=s2000Junky,Apr 26 2008, 03:16 AM] Under load conditions you lose more stroke in the damper when you have a spring that lowers ride and is progressive. Progressive springs are more compliant initially, so say you have a strait rate spring in a similar weight rating as a progressive wound, the progressive spring in the same speed/G turn or maneuver will compress farther up in the stroke then the strait rate, creating the possibility of bottoming or at the least just mushy and less responsive.

In order to have a progressive spring feel like the strait rate on the initial, it would have to be overly stiff to the point of taxing the damper and not getting much damping, it would be like a pogo effect, bad news. So the strait rate gives you the max control/response without taxing your factory S damper. The one benefit of the progressive spring on the factory damper is more supple bump response, like stock. The choice is yours. The companies like Eibach who put the pro kit together did much R&D to determine whats going to give the S the best handling spring possible with the right drop. They went with the strait rate spring, it gives you better more responsive turn in. These are the best sport handling in my experience.