good or bad? progressive springs
good or bad? progressive springs
I have progressive springs and someone told me that they are really bad for drifting. should i stick to stock springs or get something else that isnt progressive?
progressive springs aren't "bad" they're just progressive...haha.
Linear springs are more "race duty" because their response and feel dont change as lateral acceleration and loads do, which is preferable on a track car...
but for a street driven vehicle, progessive springs ride better during mild driving than linear springs do(generally speaking)
its always a trade off.-chet
Linear springs are more "race duty" because their response and feel dont change as lateral acceleration and loads do, which is preferable on a track car...
but for a street driven vehicle, progessive springs ride better during mild driving than linear springs do(generally speaking)
its always a trade off.-chet
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The problem is there are no progressive shocks as shocks are time related [inch per second] where as progressive spring get stiffer [or have more rebound energy] the more they compress.
Adding a non linear element [springs] makes it MORE impossible to select a shock that works under every condition.
Do you select rebound stiffnesss for the soft or hard part of the spring or the mid point..........either way it will be wrong.
That's the problem with Eibach rear and Tokico blue shocks, not enough rebound when the shock gets 3" compressed and too much in normal street driving.
In many ways vehicles ARE progressive if they have rubber bushings, as the first inch [of sway or movement] is compressing rubber which is in series with springs, shocks, sway bars.........once the rubber is compressed the almost true linearity begins.
Same with tires [they deflect]: a 1500 pound [sidewall stiffness] tire in series with a 150 pound spring, sitting in a rubber seat.... with a parallel shock and sway bay each with there own rubber isolation.
http://www.caam.rice.edu/~caam211/hw12/ ... up...r.pdf
But a 100>120>135>150>170>187>200 pounds per inch [in half inch increments] is not as bad as it could be.
Adding a non linear element [springs] makes it MORE impossible to select a shock that works under every condition.
Do you select rebound stiffnesss for the soft or hard part of the spring or the mid point..........either way it will be wrong.
That's the problem with Eibach rear and Tokico blue shocks, not enough rebound when the shock gets 3" compressed and too much in normal street driving.
In many ways vehicles ARE progressive if they have rubber bushings, as the first inch [of sway or movement] is compressing rubber which is in series with springs, shocks, sway bars.........once the rubber is compressed the almost true linearity begins.
Same with tires [they deflect]: a 1500 pound [sidewall stiffness] tire in series with a 150 pound spring, sitting in a rubber seat.... with a parallel shock and sway bay each with there own rubber isolation.
http://www.caam.rice.edu/~caam211/hw12/ ... up...r.pdf
But a 100>120>135>150>170>187>200 pounds per inch [in half inch increments] is not as bad as it could be.