where to get 4kq springs??????

[Michael Gough]

>> One problem here, the 4KQ front spring rate is around 110#/inch and the
>>rears springs are around 160#/in. Moving the stock front springs to the rear
>>will dramaticly SOFTEN the rear spring rate. Combined with stiffer front
>>springs, this would make the 4KQ understeer even worse than it already does
>>with stock springs. See my 4/22/03 post (below) describing my dabblings with
>>stock springs.
>
>
> I don't want to start a war here but both my personal experience of actually
> running stock front springs in the rear of my 4kq and my knowledge of
> engineering say this theory of lowered spring rates is highly doubtful.
>
> I will stick to the "experimental results" and point out that I am not the
only
> one to run front springs in the rear of my car and neither I nor anyway else I
> have ever heard of has experienced degraded handling when doing so. To the
> contrary the handling improved with considerably less understeer and body lean
> even before I added the rear sway bar.

Considering the fact that the majority of the weight on the 4kq is on the
front suspension, coupled with the fact that cars for the general public are
designed to understeer when pushed hard, the alleged 110/160 F/R spring rate
is VERY hard to believe....
How exactly did you come up with these numbers?
Mike