Spring Rates
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Island_boy_HSV
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Spring Rates
I was wondering if any one knew the spring rates for the standard MK2 Scirocco, any of the variants would do. I am looking at getting a set of coil overs as my first mod to lower the car slightly and firm up the suspension. I have been looking around and some of the spring rates seem very high when I compare them to with my less practical car that has coil overs. For example it is running 350lb springs on the front and it weighs 1650kg. One set of coilovers i looked at had 650lb springs for the Scriocco which raised my concern that it would be just too hard.
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Ian Carvell
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Re: Spring Rates
650lb is way to high for the road....actually way too high for the track aswell!!
Standard would be in the 150lb region at a guess.....I use 325lb in my car which is a daily driver, but part time racecar. That is more than you would want on the road really....its a bit rough, but I am willing to put up with it because most of my milage is motorway stuff.
And TBH 350lb that is all my dads ex VW Cup Mk2 Scirocco runs...and that is a bone fide full on race car!
Standard would be in the 150lb region at a guess.....I use 325lb in my car which is a daily driver, but part time racecar. That is more than you would want on the road really....its a bit rough, but I am willing to put up with it because most of my milage is motorway stuff.
And TBH 350lb that is all my dads ex VW Cup Mk2 Scirocco runs...and that is a bone fide full on race car!
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Island_boy_HSV
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Re: Spring Rates
That was kind of my thoughts on the matter too, 600lb seemed to high to me. So I should be looking for something in the middle like 280-300lb for a road car?