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Little Louis
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Joined: February 8th, 2009, 12:07 am
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 Up rating 2cv springs. Right, so I want to get some springs done properly, so, What is the ID of a 2cv spring (71mm ?), what lengths would you recommend given the height of my car?
I'm also feeling thick, I believe that a 2cv standard spring is usually 800 lb/ft?, so would 130% uprated be 1040 lb/ft or is that 30% uprated?
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| March 14th, 2012, 10:47 pm |
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Russell
Firing on two.
Joined: November 29th, 2008, 10:05 pm
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Location: West Sussex, U.K.
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Re: Up rating 2cv springs. Have you spoken to Sparrow? He seems to know a fair bit about it, and has a fella he uses to make springs to order.
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| March 14th, 2012, 10:50 pm |
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Little Louis
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Joined: February 8th, 2009, 12:07 am
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Re: Up rating 2cv springs. Should have spoken to him at the weekend, but was throwing bricks at a dumper truck, I'll phone him if I don't get any answers on here.
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| March 14th, 2012, 10:54 pm |
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Sean
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Joined: April 22nd, 2009, 11:06 pm
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Re: Up rating 2cv springs. 130% is twice plus some, 30% you'd hardly notice
ive 130%( we think) on the blue car and its nice doesn't shake the windows out but corners flat - i use Boge new old stock shocks you may need to make stiffer LIP's
200%+ on the race car and i wouldnt like to use that for daily driving
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| March 14th, 2012, 11:24 pm |
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Little Louis
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Joined: February 8th, 2009, 12:07 am
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Re: Up rating 2cv springs. so 130 is about 1840 lb/ft? and yeah made some changeable oil shocks but only had oil of a density that was too low to make a substantial difference. If I could find some rear Boge shocks then I would have set of all four of them too.
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| March 14th, 2012, 11:33 pm |
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subarupete
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Joined: March 5th, 2009, 6:23 pm
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Location: Near Monmouth
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Re: Up rating 2cv springs. Speak to Ryan at SpringCoil. They have the specs for various 2CV springs http://www.springcoil.co.uk/
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| March 15th, 2012, 5:13 pm |
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Little Louis
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Joined: February 8th, 2009, 12:07 am
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Re: Up rating 2cv springs. Thanks Pete, have given them a ring, sounds like they've done them to the spec I want before, so they'll get back to me 
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rebel2cv
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Joined: July 13th, 2009, 2:39 pm
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Re: Up rating 2cv springs. i've got a set of uprated springs in my shed.. might fit them to a car one day..
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| March 17th, 2012, 2:01 pm |
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subarupete
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| March 18th, 2012, 1:40 pm |
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Russell
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Joined: November 29th, 2008, 10:05 pm
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Location: West Sussex, U.K.
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Re: Up rating 2cv springs. I'm no expert, so please excuse my possibly incorrect thinking, but won't welding the coils solid like that make it more prone to breakage?
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