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Re: Looking for some Rear Comp Springs

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Looking for some Rear Comp Springs
From: Gordon Glasgow <glasgow@serv.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 16:01:43 -0700
Maybe that's why I've got a bad back. I've been running comp rears in mine 
since the mid-70's. Yes,
they're damn stiff! As the roads up here in the NW deteriorate, I may have to 
look at alternatives.

Jsk977@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/18/00 7:21:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> casalp@earthlink.net writes:
>
> << ou might want to go for a ride in a roadster that has comp springs in
>  it. " Why I remember"  back when I raced my roadster  in  the late 70s
>  most racing roadsters I saw ran the stock rear springs, de-arched.  I
>  was told that the racing springs were to stiff.  I have racing  springs
>  on mine, but it has never been, and won't ever  be on the street. ;-)  I
>  hope to run it at Candlestick autocross on May 20.  That surface is
>  bumpy, so I will see how  it does on less than ideal surfaces.
>  David Pina
>
>
>   >>
> Dave,
>
> Long time ago I tried the rear comp springs on on my CP 67 Solex, and like
> many others found them too stiff for the bumpy east coast tracks. Finally
> settled on the stock springs with a lowering kit from Bob Sharp. The kit
> contained extended U bolts and an assortment of aluminimun blocks of various
> thicknesses that fit between the spring and axle. Can't imagine using the
> comp springs for the street.
>
> Jerry Krakauer
> SRL311 - 00099

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