Moving the rear springs to the front.

[Justin86]

This is something I have been thinging aout with my Dropzones coilovers. These things are so damn stiff that it might be possible to put the rear springs in the front and the front in the rear. I want to try to smooth out my ride a little. Everytime I hit a bump it feels like I'm bottoming out the springs are so stiff. Also I have Konis now so would it help if I adjust them to be softer of stiffer if I switch arounf the springs.

[NXRacer]

your problem is coming from the fact that you're running coilovers. You might get a little better ride if you change em around but i think you probably wont feel much of a difference. If i were you, i'd pick up a set of sprint springs. They ride SMOOOOTH. I dont think they offer springs lower then 2.25 i think so if you want to go lower, you'll have to find another route.

[Jims 86LXI HB]

The dropzone's use 450lbs front springs and 350lbs rear springs.

Their no reason why you can't do the swap around. It will help in a sense that you'll be asking the front struts to not control so much spring stiffness and you'll be asking for less in the respect to where the car carries most of it's weight. And running the higher spring rates in the rear will lesson your cars understeer or push as far as handling goes, but it's highly likely that you will compleatly overwhelm the rear struts. I think it's a experiment worth trying. However your best bet would be to snag another set of the dropzones off ebay for $69 or so and steal the rear springs off them and run them on the front. Then you don't have to worry about overwhelming the rear struts with super stiff 450lbs spring rates.

BTW, point blank. If your Koni's are not adjusted to the absolute max for rebound stiffness, if you do nothing else pull them and make them that way. You are basically asking the Koni's to control springs that are really stiffer than their designed to handle. Make no mistake, their better than running tokico's or KYB's, but even the Koni's have a limit of how stiff you can go.

[Justin86]

Originally posted by Jims 86LXI HB
The dropzone's use 450lbs front springs and 350lbs rear springs.

Their no reason why you can't do the swap around. It will help in a sense that you'll be asking the front struts to not control so much spring stiffness and you'll be asking for less in the respect to where the car carries most of it's weight. And running the higher spring rates in the rear will lesson your cars understeer or push as far as handling goes, but it's highly likely that you will compleatly overwhelm the rear struts. I think it's a experiment worth trying. However your best bet would be to snag another set of the dropzones off ebay for $69 or so and steal the rear springs off them and run them on the front. Then you don't have to worry about overwhelming the rear struts with super stiff 450lbs spring rates.

BTW, point blank. If your Koni's are not adjusted to the absolute max for rebound stiffness, if you do nothing else pull them and make them that way. You are basically asking the Koni's to control springs that are really stiffer than their designed to handle. Make no mistake, their better than running tokico's or KYB's, but even the Koni's have a limit of how stiff you can go.

Yea I thought about getting another set of dropzones and run 350lbs springs all around and I allready adjusted the Konis to there max. What did you mean by "And running the higher spring rates in the rear will lesson your cars understeer or push as far as handling goes". I know some what about understeer but not a lot. So I'm not to sure how the car is going to handle better or worse. I remember reading that drift cars usally run stiffer springs in the rear, but they are also RWD. ???

[Justin86]

Well I did it. It took about 90mins to make the switch. I didn't notice a big difference in the over all handling but the front absorbs bumps a little better now.

[Jims 86LXI HB]

When you start to corner as fast as the car can corner it will understeer. That is, it stops wanting to steer where your turning it and the car goes wide. It's also call push. The factory dialed that in for safety, but it's not the fastest way around, nor is it very fun. The oppisite is when the back end come out on you, that's called oversteer. Increasing the rear spring stiffness or for that matter rear roll bar stiffness will lesson the understeer a car has.

[Justin86]

So now I need to make a rear strut tower bar. I'm waiting on Mike to ship the front bar.