> When you simply drop the car by chopping the springs
> or using lower ones, you also introduce more bump
> steer, which may or may not
> concern you, though it
> certainly should if you are using the car in
> competition.
This is true, and all things equal, most "performance"
suspensions on the market are too low, resulting in
screwy suspension geometry. My favorite part is that
they are invariably advertised as "lowering the center
of gravity for improved cornering", when in reality,
they screw up the roll center so much by changing the
geometry, the effective center of gravity might
actually be raised! Any improved cornering is
generally a result of the stiffer spring rate, and
center of gravity rarely plays into it.
That said, the vast majority of suspension systems -
particularly modern ones - can take a marginal amount
of lowering without too many untoward consequences.
But the bottom line is this:
The market - right or wrong - absolutely DEMANDS that
any performance spring be lowered, so no aftermarket
company in their right mind would try to mass market
performance springs that maintained stock ride height
and expect to move any serious numbers of them.
Believe me, when I was at AutoThority, we tried...
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Paul Misencik
1971 MGB Vintage Race Project
www.sopwithracing.com
Huntersville, NC USA
www.paoloroman.com
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