Re: Springs

[STEADIRIC@aol.com]

>> BTW not sure what you mean by Tensile strength in the scheme of 
>> springs.....  Not a nomenclature that is used in suspension design.
>> Do you mean installed rate?
>
>Sorry, should have said yield strength.  A couple of the spring tech
>service guys were worried about wire dia too small for a heavier car, w/
>springs becoming overstressed and eventually sagging.  One of them used
>the term tensile strength, and I perpetuated it.

I'd love to know who you talked to......  They ain't shooting straight. A 
S-4 Spring on a v-8 will keep the car off the bump stops but that's bout 
it, and they will not sag IF they are wound from quality wire, on a 
quality winder. If your really worried about sag for with Titanium..... 
Damn near impossible to wind but the won't sag EVER.

>>>Any other recommendations?  Suspension Techniques, maybe (do they make
>>>some for this app)?  Others?
>
>Any recommendations on currently available springs that are less stiff
>than the H&R's?  Looks like pretty slim pickin's for a V8 5-spd.

there's other stuff..... just gotta know where and how to look........  
Sorry not saying anything more about V8 suspension until I done with one 
here in St. Louis..........  Now if I could just get my Seriously 
reworked struts back from a Indy car driver that wants to put them on his 
V8.....


Later!


Eric Fletcher S.O.C.
'87 5KCSTQIA2RSR2B
St. Louis, MO

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