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Spring rates??

posted by  pgrey on  Sat Jan 22 15:08 CST 2005
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Wow! 450s! I'm assuming the 450 pound springs were on the front, yes? What springs are you running in back? What shocks? What size tires? You've got an iron head 5 liter and a T5?

BTW, the iPD springs are amazingly light. AIR the stock fronts measured 150-ish and the iPD springs were under 200(!). The measurement of the rears escape me.

The car clearly needs more spring, but I'm looking for a ride that won't punish me too badly. The car already rides like an ox cart over small bumps (because of the low profile tires I think), but is under sprung on the larger amplitude stuff. Ideally I'd put taller sidewalls AND stiffer springs on the car, but there's not too much I'm going to do about the tire size at this point. I can't stick 15s or 16s back on the car because of the brakes...

Thanks,

Peter






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