At 10:11 AM 2/11/99 -0600, Dave Terrick wrote:
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>Consider the weight of the car with and without passengers. 2 up will
>definitely settle the car and cause scraping (Atwell) and camber change
>(all).
Dave and anyone else:
Will ALL Spits scrape the road when the suspension is fully compressed? I
think maybe so, since both sets of front coils that I have (stock '79 and
'70 replacements) have ten coils and no other visible jounce stops.
> ANY prep manual will advise you to test the settings under "normal
>load" ie with passenger and/or luggage.
Good advice. When I had my Spit aligned last year I had the settings
verified with a driver in the car (me) since that is the condition under
which most of the driving is done.
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>A further note. I am using spitfire comp springs from VB on my GT6 and they
>are fantastic, albeit 3/4" too low for my application. My fix will be a
>3/4" spacer, the spring rates @ 330 are the same.
The mounting studs on the upper spring seats allow a 1/2" spacer to be
installed and still utilize the Nyloc nuts. Are you going to replace the
studs with longer ones? Or install the spacers directly between the springs
and seats?
I have just finished fabricating and installing 1/2" wooden spring spacers,
and I can report that they did provide almost zero camber at the front
wheels. I intend to drive the car like that for a few miles to evaluate
the tendency to scrape the road.
Atwell Haines
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