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Toymods Vice President
Location:
Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Custom Springs
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Mon, 13 September 2004 21:12
 
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The maths is fairly simple as long as you know all the variables. If you can tell the manufacturer how much weight each spring will be supporting, wich is in my opinion the hardest part. Then you need to give them
- The compressed height, ie how long the spring has to be at the ride height you want so you'll have to pull out your springs set the axle where you want it then measure the distance between the spring seats.
- The spring rate
- the free length
- and it would be a good idea to give them a solid height requirement so that you can make sure you don't end up with coil bind before you hit the bump stops
From this info any decent spring works should be able to design a spring to do what you need, as long as the math works. Obviously they aren't going to be able to make you a 1KG/mm spring with a free hieight 10 mm more than the compressed height that will also have 200mm difference between compressed and solid heights.
As to who to get to do the springs outside of Sydney I can't really help you except to tell you to speak to some until you find a spring manufacturere who knows how to do the maths to make the spring you want.
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Custom Springs
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sated | Mon, 13 September 2004 04:55 |
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Re: Custom Springs
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Joshstix | Mon, 13 September 2004 21:12 |
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Re: Custom Springs
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sated | Thu, 16 September 2004 18:56 |
