LRP and spring specs

[mossaidis]

I wanted to thank everyone for a great end to the session.

Even though my honda and I went for a swim into the left hander pond, no one seemed excessively pissed at me for doing so. I was trying to prove that insanity gets you no where and I proved it once again. Actually, it did get me somewhere, in the left hander pond with clumps of grass and mud in my suspension and engine bay. Like Gordon pointed out, "I speak from experience, you'll be finding that mud and grass for years to come."

On other news, some other drivers and I were discussing spring rates.

As I started building more of a "race suspension", I was unsure of which spring rates to start off with. Some honda drivers go with 450/600, others 1000/800, some even went so far as 1250/900. So before I went off and installed some ridiculous spring rates, I did some research and found a company, DMS, that designs rally suspesions and makes spring rates recommendation for different surfaces. DMS is a big name in Rally Ford series and their recommendations are based for their suspensions setups, so their specs are certainly NOT gospel! Yet, it has proved to be a good starting point for me. Anyways, here's a link to their spec sheet, it's not comprehensive by any means:

http://www.dmsnorthamerica.com/cgi-bin/ ... =221&fid=6

Tarmac is the favored surface for most of us. Regardless of our desire for off-road excersions, we should refuse to apply the "mud/grass" spring rates.... I took their recommendations for the EG6, at 750/400, applied an extra 50 lbs in the rear and I am currently running 750/450. I am not sure how their recommended spring rates fair with the rest of you, but would be interesting to get some feedback on those tarmac rates from our WRX crowd. Anyone willing to speak on other models, like the Accent, Escort or Peugeot or Seat, go nuts.