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Originally Posted by robo
Because the spring/shock combo if correct in poundage would not be in the topped out position once the car was on the floor. Thats when the adjusters take over to trim ride height.
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I hear what you say Bob as well as Baz-r. I still fail to see how the coil over adjusters will lower or raise the car, or maybe age is getting to me and stupidity moves in.
On my car - I made my own coilovers with Gabriel gas shocks and spent a lot of time working out the spring rates
(courtesy of Google University
)which seemed to worked because my car went down exactly to the designed height. No adjusting needed and springs nicely.
It is exactly as you said Bob.
BUT, and this pickles my mind, but hear me out - as my ride is now and I put another say for instance 1" tension/260lbs on the spring with the adjuster/perch nut, yes the spring will be shorter, but because spring loading is linear and when the car lowered back on the coilover, the spring will compress to exactly the same amount again iow, the car will get back to its original height as before the additional pre-load/tension added. The only problem I see is that the spring will now feel the cars weight and the 260lbs pre-load - sensing a higher load than actual carrying - and this extra weight has to be overcome before the spring function normally again
Does this makes sense or am I missing something.
Its not that Im nit picking, but its in my nature to be able to understand why things work the way it do, and if it works in this case, it just do not add up to my math and it drives me up a wall to now why not
