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Re: GT6 vs Spitfire front springs

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: GT6 vs Spitfire front springs
From: idhtfts@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:43:08 -0500
At 02:57 PM 2/12/02, Joe Curry wrote:
>Well known but depends entirely on the data that is put into the 
>formulas.  If the data is either unknown or "Shaky" you can't depend 
>on the results. So it remains "seat-of-your-pants".

Just got off the phone with a local spring shop. The guy said as soon 
as you add heat to a coil spring, everything you thought you knew about 
its spring rate and behavior has now changed.  Formulas applied to the 
spring 10 minutes earlier don't mean a thing.

-Maurice

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