Taught me a lesson today ;-)
Thanks
TonyC
-----Original Message-----
From: david.clement@verizon.net <david.clement@verizon.net>
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
<dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: Suspension Q's Attn Jason
>
>In article <086101c42d19$0ddf8040$f95f2241@a.tampabay.rr.com>,
>acellan1@tampabay.rr.com ("Tony Cellana") writes:
>>
>>
>> I didn't realize you were doing some sort of class racing. Cutting
springs
>> does NOT change their rate. There is just less of the spring available
for
>> travel.
>
>Absoultly wrong there. Cutting a spring increases the spring rate directly
in
>proportion to the amount of coil removed. A coil spring is nothing more
than a
>curled up torsion bar. That is, as the coil is compressed the wire in the
coil
>is twisting (torsion), the longer the wire in the spring (i.e., the more
coils)
>the more it will twist for a given load (lower spring rate), shorten the
wire
>(i.e., remove a coil) and it twists less for a given load (increased spring
>rate).
>
>Dave Clement
>99 SLT+ CC 4x4
>
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