etxxz

i got a sick deal from a shop in miami for new rims/tires and new NEX SS coilovers (98-02 accord). Installation was pretty easy and the car looks amazing BUT ***** they are pretty stiff.

Thankfully i live where streets are as flat as they come, but everytime i take a sewer or road dammage it feels as if the car was going to split in half. The shocks are not adjustable and i don't know if moving the spring perch down, so to decompress the spring, will soften up the suspension. They are linear springs 12kg/mm on the front 6kg/mm back. Any ideas? i'd have to have to go back to stock 'cuase the car will look like a truck on 18's.

-etxx

fsttyms1

Lowering the perch will only lower the car more

etxxz

no no no no no...maybe... i thought about that. these coilovers adjust in the following way. This bottom part of the coilover screws up and down to adjust the heigth


then there's the spring perch further up which has the spring compressed (1perch and a 2nd for locking the 1st). My question more towards the properties of a spring. So will uncompressing the spring make the coilover softer? ... my thinking is that the overall heigth will be preserved untill i lower the spring perch enough to separate the spring from the top hat which we dont want to do (uncompressing?). physics will say no by F = ky ~ 12kg/mm (12kg to compress 1mm regardless of initial compressed heigth) but this being a real world application and the probability that this could be a progressive spring.


please comment. ty