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Old 03-09-2012 | 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by turner66racing
In real racing (not toy car racing lol) a progressive spring looks like this. A true progressive spring has two rates depending on where it is in the compression or retraction.
You mean bound and rebound. Spring RATE is controlled by wire thickness ONLY.

A true progressive automotive spring is coiled smaller at one end and larger at the other (or any variation by design) and rate can change ONLY if the wire thickness is progressive as well. Like so...



Notice the wire size tapers along with coil size? If your RC car spring does not look like this then you do NOT, by definition, have true progressive rate springs. This is fact by definition, not assumption or hearsay.
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