help with lowering and spring rates

[swedishsled]

so my front ground control setup on my saab cannot go any lower on 300lbs 8" tall springs and its bottoming out pretty badly. Should I go with 7" at 430lbs or 6.5" at 550lbs? Give me some insight please :(

[swedishsled]

nobody can help me?

[trickydik_1]

your not giving enough information.......
is the ride height where you want it
is the ride stiff enough with 300 spring rating or is it bouncy
did you cut or remove bump stop
even a couple pictures of your set up would help

[swedishsled]

The ride height isn't perfect I'd like to have the ability to go about 1" lower problem is i'll be basically bottomed out on the shock. The ride quality isn't that bad sorta bouncy but I definately need a higher spring rate. There's still a bump stop too

[trickydik_1]

I would start with shorter shocks get that thing from bottoming 0ut........
as for spring rate I would do 50 lbs increments......550 is way to stiff
as for height try a 7" with a spring rate of 400
no one can give you the answers kinda trial and error.....only you know what kind of ride you want

[M.Burroughs]

shorter springs won't change your shocks bottoming out. You need shorter struts/shocks.

[swedishsled]

ok well I ordered the 7" springs at 430lbs but need to resolve the bottoming out problem so how can get my koni's shortened? I'm capable of shortening and welding the housing myself but have to idea where to get shortened konis

[trickydik_1]

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4901485-strut-shortening-how-to

instead of machining new threads you could just cut and weld the center of the insert........

[swedishsled]

I dont feel save doing that to my struts right now. Is there any other way to shorten them?

[trickydik_1]

I dont feel save doing that to my struts right now. Is there any other way to shorten them?

nope.......