Ok, now this is where im confused...
Now IF YOU KNOW whether or not im right, please post. This is not me making another quiz, this is actually information that i've believed that I was right, but now im questioning and I may be wrong, because im being told different things and i've been told im wrong in a few cases, so i'd like to clear it up.
1.
Ideally when you lower your car, you NEED struts that have a shorter rod, shortened with a distance equal to the amount the vehicle is being lowered. You also need struts with dampening abilities that equal the new lowering spring rate. (up to this point i know im right)
Now the part that i'm unsure of is: Do you have the SAME amount of suspension travel than you did before?
2.
Say freddy buys lowering springs for his protege, and he buys some struts with the dampening ability needed. The springs lower the car 1 inch, however the new struts do not have a shorter rod.
Even though his new struts are going to be continually compressed by 1 inch,
he is told to cut his bumpstop in half, and the bottom half stays installed, and the top half gets discarded.
Now this is where I would come in and say "the bumpstop also theoretically has a 'spring rate' in the sense that it compresses a small amount, but as it compresses it becomes progressively stiffer... at a fast rate. if you decide to cut off the top half of it, you're cutting off the portion that 'eases you in' to the stiffer section of the bumpstop. when you do this, sure you get increase suspension travel by the amount that you cut off, however in the event that you DO hit the bumpstop (or whats left of it) you are no longer "eased into" it, and it is much more rigid than it would be originally, because the top section is removed. so you go from having 200lb spring rate to WHAM 600lb spring rate. This sudden increase would lead to unpredictable handling and a more harsh impact, and would therefore be a poor idea. Now in every instance where i've ever lowered a car i'd trim a portion of the bumpstop off (less than half... probably close to a quarter) OR i'd just go look for aftermarket bumpstops that are shorter to begin with. And i've never once had a problem. Now, i've been told that you MUST cut the bumpstop in half (the instructions in the lowering spring even tell you to).
But can someone EXPLAIN to me why?
*note that i said explain, and not insult/flame me
Again, ideally a shorter strut should be used, however in the situations where a shorter strut isnt made for the car, or the person just doesent want to buy one.... removing that much of your bumpstop to ME seems like a risk. I know doing it the way I usually do it decreases suspension travel overall, but it still remains reasonably progressive.
Ok, now discuss... and please enlighten me on why i am wrong. I've been told im wrong by a few people, but nobody explains WHY... so i remain confused
so thats what im looking for here.... jesse's and edwins input would also be beneficial
Now IF YOU KNOW whether or not im right, please post. This is not me making another quiz, this is actually information that i've believed that I was right, but now im questioning and I may be wrong, because im being told different things and i've been told im wrong in a few cases, so i'd like to clear it up.
1.
Ideally when you lower your car, you NEED struts that have a shorter rod, shortened with a distance equal to the amount the vehicle is being lowered. You also need struts with dampening abilities that equal the new lowering spring rate. (up to this point i know im right)
Now the part that i'm unsure of is: Do you have the SAME amount of suspension travel than you did before?
2.
Say freddy buys lowering springs for his protege, and he buys some struts with the dampening ability needed. The springs lower the car 1 inch, however the new struts do not have a shorter rod.
Even though his new struts are going to be continually compressed by 1 inch,
he is told to cut his bumpstop in half, and the bottom half stays installed, and the top half gets discarded.
Now this is where I would come in and say "the bumpstop also theoretically has a 'spring rate' in the sense that it compresses a small amount, but as it compresses it becomes progressively stiffer... at a fast rate. if you decide to cut off the top half of it, you're cutting off the portion that 'eases you in' to the stiffer section of the bumpstop. when you do this, sure you get increase suspension travel by the amount that you cut off, however in the event that you DO hit the bumpstop (or whats left of it) you are no longer "eased into" it, and it is much more rigid than it would be originally, because the top section is removed. so you go from having 200lb spring rate to WHAM 600lb spring rate. This sudden increase would lead to unpredictable handling and a more harsh impact, and would therefore be a poor idea. Now in every instance where i've ever lowered a car i'd trim a portion of the bumpstop off (less than half... probably close to a quarter) OR i'd just go look for aftermarket bumpstops that are shorter to begin with. And i've never once had a problem. Now, i've been told that you MUST cut the bumpstop in half (the instructions in the lowering spring even tell you to).
But can someone EXPLAIN to me why?
*note that i said explain, and not insult/flame me
Again, ideally a shorter strut should be used, however in the situations where a shorter strut isnt made for the car, or the person just doesent want to buy one.... removing that much of your bumpstop to ME seems like a risk. I know doing it the way I usually do it decreases suspension travel overall, but it still remains reasonably progressive.
Ok, now discuss... and please enlighten me on why i am wrong. I've been told im wrong by a few people, but nobody explains WHY... so i remain confused
so thats what im looking for here.... jesse's and edwins input would also be beneficial
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