Re: suspension

["George Turner, Jr." <getone@mediaone.net>]

well. there is a couple explanations for this....BUT coil overs (H&R) are by
far not noisy for the street.  If you were talking about Carreras, then I
would agree.. but the quality of the h&r are far superior.  no squeaky
squeaky on the street from those puppies. Regardless of what you read about
cutting springs, there is the article/mag application, and real life
application. Even on race springs, when you cut of dead coils you change the
spring rate.. I had ABD test this out on some h&r race springs which are
linear.. and did not reach the claimed rate of 400lbs until compressed
almost 3 inches. BUT more importantly is the shock.  When you cut a spring,
you compress the shock, messing up the travel, dampening, and rebound.  You
will blow a shock a whole lot faster this way too.  the more travel a shock
has, the smoother ride it produces.. the less travel, the bumpier.. that is
why most race cars (converted from street cars) have lowered spindles along
with race suspension.. to keep the travel.  the car will handle much
better.. BTW.. check out my lil car in VWtuner mag for an H&R install
article.. this in another reason why Bilstien offers *sport* shocks.. the
main difference is the shaft is shorter so you wont get the bounce bounce
with those springs... but then you can only lower so much till you say.. I
gotta get some coil overs (the H&R's)!!
George
h&r for a while now, and I wont go back!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Mitchman <mitchman@owt.com>
To: <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: suspension


> I agree that coilovers are the best (yet a little noisy for the street)
> solution .  But why do you say that cutting the coils make the car "bounce
> around like a Honda"?  Coil springs stiffen 10% for each "live" coil cut.
> Cutting a "dead" coil (the ones stacked on top of each other) won't change
> the stiffness but will change ride height.  In fact that's normally what
> they are there for.