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RobertoX Regular Location: Adelaide Registered: May 2002	Re: Coilover suspension why?? Thu, 12 May 2005 08:00 I dont know if its been mentioned yet but there is also the added benefit of being able to use a different strut in your car that has bigger brakes and then chopping it to the right height. Most people mention that the benefit of coilovers is their height adjustability, but really this is just a (sometimes unwanted) byproduct of adjusting the spring preload. Really the desired height shoud be decided upon and also the spring preload and then using the spring rate you want you should get the length of the spring/strut from that. Who here actually does that? From personal experience, I had some coilovers in my sprinter and had them wound up as high as they would go when I first installed them. I found that the car would understeer quite a lot even though the front and rear spring rates were selected to give neutral handling. When I reduced the preload and consequently the height I found that the car handled a lot better but the wheels scrubbed. (I needed longer springs in the front which I was going to get but then the damn car got stolen) This does show another advantage though, you can play with the settings to change the behaviour of the car. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Coilover suspension why??	Xinx	Thu, 12 May 2005 01:32
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	KOFFEE-BLACK	Thu, 12 May 2005 01:45
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	oldcorollas	Thu, 12 May 2005 01:51
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	slydar	Thu, 12 May 2005 01:56
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Norbie	Thu, 12 May 2005 01:59
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	slydar	Thu, 12 May 2005 03:22
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	bbaacchhyy	Thu, 12 May 2005 04:39
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Norbie	Thu, 12 May 2005 08:09
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	TurboRA28	Thu, 12 May 2005 02:18
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	EMP-2TG	Thu, 12 May 2005 02:23
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Dirty_Sanchez	Thu, 12 May 2005 03:39
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Xinx	Thu, 12 May 2005 04:47
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	September_Squall	Thu, 12 May 2005 05:21
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Toobs	Thu, 12 May 2005 05:38
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	RobertoX	Thu, 12 May 2005 08:00
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	oldcorollas	Thu, 12 May 2005 08:10
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	YelloRolla	Thu, 12 May 2005 08:32
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	M.W.P.	Thu, 12 May 2005 09:35
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	RobertoX	Thu, 12 May 2005 23:57
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	M.W.P.	Fri, 13 May 2005 06:59
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Henn	Fri, 13 May 2005 07:19
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	RobertoX	Fri, 13 May 2005 08:17
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Henn	Fri, 13 May 2005 14:39
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	RobertoX	Sat, 14 May 2005 02:25
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	oldcorollas	Sat, 14 May 2005 06:16
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	slydar	Sat, 14 May 2005 07:01
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Norbie	Sat, 14 May 2005 11:34
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Stefan	Sat, 14 May 2005 15:22
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	Yian	Sat, 14 May 2005 22:18
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	MR 1JZ	Sat, 14 May 2005 05:11
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	RobertoX	Sun, 15 May 2005 03:18
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	oldcorollas	Mon, 16 May 2005 09:47
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	IRA11Y	Tue, 17 May 2005 11:29
	Re: Coilover suspension why??	i2obert	Mon, 16 May 2005 09:26

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