Folks
I am putting a Ford 9" under the rear-end of a 85 corvette and need to put
together a set of coil overs for the suspension. Since this is my first
experience with coil over, there are lots of things I don't understand.
1st... some shocks are rebuildable/revalvable.... Do I care in a Bonneville
application? Do they get enough used over a few seasons to make this
something I need?
2nd... Springs come in variable rate and standard?' Again, are their pros
and cons for my application?
3rd... Since I am taking out a transverse leaf spring rear-end system, any
starting guess' as to what weight springs I need? When the car is
finished, the total car will be ~3500 lbs before we start playing with
ballast (if any).
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As I side note, I sent Ed a private message asking about coil overs on the
FRONT of a Vette, but if anyone else would like to chip in a comment or two on
that issue, I would love to hear form them as well.
KEN
In far Northern Calif. it is way, way wet... but then some of us just
consider it self-shoveling snow :-). Hope you folks with really bad
weather are making out OK.
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