I was thinking of dropping my car but since my rear is already pretty darn low, I was thinking of having my front a little more lower than the rear.

I know the h&r's already have a larger drop for the front than rear, but i want the drop on the front to be on B&G level, but the drop on the rear to stay H&R level.


Basically my question is, is it a bad idea to put different brands of springs on front and rear?

Will this ruin my handling/driveablitlity?

 

Interesting idea. I thought about this before I had my rear Sprint's cut off one coil.


I was thinking of using Sprint's for the front and Intrax's for the rear.


Shouldn't hurt right? I think this is better for people who don't want to cut their springs.

 

Thanks for the reply! I was also thinking that it shouldnt really hurt...


Anyone else have any input?

 

Well....

Once we go screwing with suspensions bad things can happen. It's easy to mix/chop springs and get a "phat" looking ride that handles great at 100mph in a straight line or at 40mph around the cones. But that's not the real world. Imagine 80mph with 3 people in the car, a full tank of gas, and a hard enough swerve on a 2 lane highway to start the rear coming around. Now in .3 seconds your looking at a row of oak trees at 70mph 30 feet away. Now your praying for predictable handling...

The theory is the manufacturers test and design their springs in full sets on real cars. So they know there's not something spooky under dynamic loading in slippery corners or something... If you had a rear spring set with a different/stiffer compression profile and a much more compliant front set you'd end up with strange and seemingly random oversteer/understeer in certain situations.(i.e. depending on how the car is loaded, 4 people, full tank of gas, etc)

Now that being said, I'm sure smaller spring companies don't do the kind of testing that H&R does. We're probably their beta-testers.

So, I'd vote it's a bad idea unless you want to fully experiment with the handling quirks on all different kinds of surfaces. Unless you have lots of track time somewhere that really isn't going to happen...

-RMB

 

dont think about droppin your car, just DO IT!!!

Ant

 

get coilovers

 

fellow members if we dont Auto cross or drive like id!ots on the road looks and a little speed is the way to go. Like my man just said dont think just do it. Not to start some mess up here save your money and cut just one coil and be a happy camper. Half a coil might solve may solve the issue. And like my man just posted above you having people in your car and a small booboo happens your praying for handling. I got into a small fender bender and man it happens so so so fast and you have milliseconds to make a decision to steer left hit the median go straight or go right and hit the pole. I went straight and a bit to the right still hit the broad that got in the way, I had Eibach springs then.