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Re: front springs

To: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: front springs
From: "Dave Gebhard" <kimkell@decaturnet.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:49:59 -0500
I put the "competition springs" from VB on my spit. It did lower it about
1.5 inches. Feels stiffer also. Offhand, does anybody know what the rate of
these spring are?
        Dave Gebhard
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:10 PM
Subject: front springs


> I need some advice on front springs. I will need to lower my Spit so the
> 185x60x13 Nankangs don't look so little.
>
> Moss has some for 39.95. They are 6.87" free length and rated at 330 lbs.
> Victoria British has the ones for MKI&II Spits for 33.95. They are 9 7/8"
free
> length and rated at 150 lbs. Both are supposed to lower a 1500 about 1".
>
> I will be driving "spiritedly", as they say, but doubt I will enter any
races
> or autocross. I don't know which to buy and have spent WAAAY to much
lately to
> buy both.
>
> I have new rubber bushings and new poly bushings for the suspension. The
> swaybar is 7/8" with poly bushes.
>
> Larry





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