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Re: GT6 vs Spitfire front springs

To: idhtfts@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: GT6 vs Spitfire front springs
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:20:34 -0700
idhtfts@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> 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.


Precisely!

Joe

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