scottybaccus

Did you notice how the Eibach pad is undercut at the bottom? I'm thinking in an effort to soften the final blow. It could also have something creating a progressive rate on the interior, like a cone shaped hollow, maybe.

Here's a link to their tuning guid for the universal motorsports stops:http://performance-suspension.eibach...s__bump_stops_

HenryinFlorida

When I lowered my car I used a set of these ford bumpstops:
http://www.cjponyparts.com/FORD-RACI...2011/p/M5570A/

There made for lowered springs. It's not that there shorter, but there made from a different material that absorbs more. I haven't hit bottom with my car yet, and it's lowered 1in in front and 2 in in rear. I used Roush Extreme springs and KONI STR.T shocks and struts.

Norm Peterson

Yes. The chamfer is a little better than nothing.

Entirely possible.
I'd still wonder if a cone-shaped void in the solid thing would be as effective as just making the solid thing conical, though. But again, still better than nothing.

Maybe somebody will post up a couple of pictures . . .


Norm

Norm Peterson

I see the picture, but this
doesn't lead me to where I can enter that data, or anyplace else useful for that matter. Maybe it's me (too early in the AM <yawn> ) or maybe it's the office internet connection filtering it out (grrr, dammit).


I seem to remember going through a bump stop stiffness vs height discussion or two over on an F-body board some years ago. I don't think it ever got quite as far as trying to estimate the lateral load transfer effect numerically, as a linear geometric roll center model based on the normal suspension linkage is no longer adequate.


Norm

scottybaccus

Here's an example of the data for one of the stops. It is actually a progressive rate spring.