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How To Pick The Right Spring Rate - Rated A For Fu
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"Everything" may be a rather vague term, but when trying to figure out what factors determine the ideal spring rate for a car, it's pretty darn accurate nonetheless. To put it succinctly, anything that adds or removes weight from a car affects the optimal stiffness of a spring."Everything" may be a rather vague term, but when trying to figure out what factors determine the ideal spring rate for a car, it's pretty darn accurate nonetheless. To put it succinctly, anything that adds or removes weight from a car affects the optimal stiffness of a spring. Aluminum flywheels, A/C systems, fiberglass hoods, power steering boxes, aluminum heads, and a driver's midsection girth all swing the weight total in different directions, but each and every component that has mass plays a role in spring rate selection. With the countless variables that can alter a vehicle's weight, it's not surprising that GM had to use more than 100 different rear spring rates on the first-gen Camaro and its Nova platform-mate at the factory.inline_mediumwraptextrightSpring terminology can certainly get confusing. A spring's free length, as pictured here, is its length when detached from a car with no load placed on it at all. Its solid height is its length when compressed all the way, and a spring's travel is the difference between its free length and solid height.31485822/tech/chassis/suspension_steering/1002chp_how_to_pick_the_right_spring_rate1002chp_0 1_z+how_to_pick_the_right_spring_rate+coiled_sprin gs.jpgTrue
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