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Old 02-02-2011, 06:50 AM
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Do springs just lower the car or do they also enhance the stiffness of the suspension. I hate that the car (stock) feels like a see-saw when shifting gears. Thanks for the inputs.
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Old 02-03-2011, 06:20 AM
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Usually, lowering springs are somewhat stiffer than stock. But even 50% stiffer springs will still let the car be moving about 2/3 as much. Better shocks (which you should be doing at the same time) will slow the see-sawing down (and your perception will be that less than that 2/3 is happening).

If you're at the dragstrip when this is a problem, you probably need more than just springs. In reasonably sane daily driving there's rarely any real need to be banging gears this hard - "gaining" a tenth of a second here and couple more there is utterly meaningless in most any situation other than in organized competition with real timers and real start/finish lines.


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Old 02-03-2011, 12:40 PM
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Thanks for your input Norm.
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