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Re: Short Stroke suspension conversion....

Thu, 03 March 2005 05:25

Sam_Q wrote on Wed, 02 March 2005 23:16

if you are using spacers then you are purposefully not allowing yourself to have a shorter stroke setup than what you could have, and if you ask me the tighter springs are held in when the car is lifted the better

the insert determines the amount of stroke available... the spacer is a consequence of strut length, which will be a big part of determining ride height.

if a donut-style spacer is used on top of the insert, between it and the gland nut, then stroke will be reduced even further (the mid-point of the stroke is moved deeper into the strut) but unless the vehicle is stupidly low, this will in turn eat up what droop the suspension has left (track=maybe ok, road=not ok). using a shorter insert with a spacer underneath it will raise the mid-point of the stroke, but also reduces the total stroke proportionally. it also keeps the same bumpstop height... so you will have short-stroke suspension keeping your shorter springs captive, without a ridiculously low ride-height as a consequence of chopping up your strut to suit a foreign insert. i'm not saying shortening struts a bit is a bad idea, but 70mm is fairly extreme.

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