Thread: Coil overs

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Originally Posted by rspears

Dave, not to hijack your thread, but I have Viper Coilovers from Pete & Jakes. The adjusting knob on the top has four "clicks". I'm assuming that fully counter-clockwise is the softest, and the damping gets progressively tighter as you tighten the adjusting valve. Is that correct?

Roger - somewhere in my 'archives' I have that information from TCI, but yes, they go from softest, full CCW to stiffest full CW. Mine I believe have 6 clicks, but not a big deal

Originally Posted by IC2

Roger - somewhere in my 'archives' I have that information from TCI, but yes, they go from softest, full CCW to stiffest full CW. Mine I believe have 6 clicks, but not a big deal

Dave - based on your 6 clicks I went back out and put a bit more grip on the knurled knobs. They had a definite "hard spot" about four clicks to CW, but once past that they each have ten (10) detent clicks. Once exercised they adjust easily full range now.

Resurrecting an old thread

The education continues.................

I finally got to the front springs on my '31. The fronts, according to the blue dab painted on the end are 160in lb springs, not 200 as I thought I had been sold. Using the correction factor that AFCO and others post of .93 to .95 (they are installed at 13* ) that will give them an effective rate of ~150 in lb. AFCO, again, says my car should have as high as 350in lb for the front, but I do have more engine set back then normal so there is more weight bias towards the rear. Then there is that '32 gas tank. I just ordered a set of 325's from Speedway just to be on the conservative side as that corrected then becomes ~300in lb. When I pulled the existing coil overs, I found that the adjusters were within a half inch of the top for the bottom 'A' arm to be parallel with the floor. And I wondered why the car wallowed.

Once these are done, then off to the back to see what surprises meet me there. The backs look like progressives, so who knows. But I will

Got my new springs yesterday - pretty, but the country of manufacture

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Dammit - why wont Photobucket open pictures here

I just took a rear spring off - holy @#$%. According to the TCI info, the rears are 300/540 progressive rate springs (effective rate 282/508 @ .94 for the 13* installed angle). No wonder the car wallowed with effective 150 in lb on the front and these on the rear - plus there was NO give to it at all. The worst part - these springs are 11 inches long, not the normal 10's, so I need to do a web search for a supplier other then s-l-o-o-o-w TCI.