South Yorkshire Springs CoilSpring Info

[umpkin]

ive got 300lbs ones atm, although they may be weak now, but they are crap.

also seperate issue, shaun, with your springs from valley springs, when you jack the car up, are they loose???, mine rattle about in the wind, and the MOT tester wasnt best please, and gave me an advisery ticked dangerous, so im hoping to solve that too!!!

[s13eater]

my rears arn't to bad as i only went 25 or 30mm on the rear, japster has some check straps on his that i notices, plastic sleeved steel cable with a loop at each end that is bolted to where the shock sits at the bottom and to the side of where the spring sits up top, this stops it dropping to far.failing that, we could do with matching some shorter rear dampers up.

[umpkin]

the rears i can sort soming out with, the lower shock mounts are bolted onto the arm, so im looking to get a set of spax adjustables for a mk2 escort, and remake the mounts whith slightly high holes as the mk2 escort shocks are 3" shorter but thats just an idea.

on the fronts im only looking for -25mm same as i have atm, but i dont want them loose on jacking up.

[s13eater]

what i did when i had the std front struts with avo springs is, weld 2 u shaped pieces to the top cup, then thread the top of the spring through, then on the bottom, drill 3 evenly spaced holes into the bottom spring cup, then make 3 z shaped lugs to hold the spring to the seat.

[umpkin]

ahh yeah, i remember you saying about this before, might try that.

[umpkin]

shaun, i phoned valley springs today, they told me they havnt got any pattern for my car, so i would need to supply them with an old spring before they can quote me on them.

did you have to give them a pattern when you got yours done???

or if your passing could you pop in and give them any info they need and ill phone the next day or somin. i cant send them one of my springs, coz then my front spoiler would drag the floor when i drive to to work, lol

[s13eater]

hi mate, i can call in on thursday as i'am near them when i go shopping, i've been past today, i have the front and rear hieghts and poundages in the manual, but could you count me the coils on front and rear springs and if you have any vernier calipers, then perhaps measure me the thickness of the wire on both, cheers.

[umpkin]

the manual says the wire size is 13.2mm how will they get the ride height right?? i want -25mm rates 350lbs. if the rate is to high, what cons would there be???? i dont mind the ride being really bumpy, its not a family car, i want it cornering like its on rails. i dont want sloppy

[s13eater]

the manual gives you the std spring length as well, he puts it all into a pc program and it gives you the lenght ,rate, wire thickness and how many coils you need.

[umpkin]

do you recon he can do it with a lazy top coil, so i dont have to mess about making brackets to tie them in the strut. you still need me to count the coils???