Thread: spring weight

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Originally posted by mooneye777
thanks for the advice gentlemen, i am going to spring for the 150's and go from there. it will only be a small loss if it is wrong, compared to the final cost of the car 75 bucks is the least of my worries. but i do want the shocks and all mounts in place so i dont take a chance of getting something in the way of something else. the car is so small there is no room for guessing, thanks again.

I set my chassis up on the jig at the lowest possible ride height and then mounted the shocks fully extended off the bottom of the mounts. As you can see in this pic. the mounts are mounted about 2 holes too low just so I didn't have to compress the springs. That way everything is in place including coil springs and with the chassis at it's lowest ride height so I shouldn't have any interference problems. Just to be sure, if I have any doubt I have a block & tackle on the ceiling above the rear end. I unhook the shocks and then pull the rear end assembly through it's full travel (Actually further cuz' the shocks are unhooked) just to make sure there's no interference.

And yes those are billet aluminum parts .. But .. I made em' Meself' on the CNC machine, so that doesn't count as cookie cutter parts... Right?