look you guys the darn 1/18 xray isnt anything near the 10 scale cars in the shock dept.
second the car was designed that way!
the forces acting on a 10 scale are far greater then the micro.
third when you compress a spring it DOES NOT MAKE IT STIFFER!!!! all it does is make the spring react qicker.
On real cars they make lowering springs the correctly designed ones will be almost as high as the standerd ones but when installed the few coils that are wound at the top are designed to take up slack. thus there is some preload for purpose of the spring not moving out of the perch.
on our cars because the deficulty (10 scale) this is controlled via droop. if you take the droop screw out of sedan the suspension will drop and the spring will bounce around.
on the micro being that the car is so small its verually impossible to make the suspension work like its bigger cousin because of space limitations of the scale body. install associated 12scale shocks and youll get what you want but then the hieght will make the body look funny
Ride hight should be set with adjustment collars suspension down travel restricted by droop screw and weight transfer via spring rates, dampening via oil. Sometimes we use combinations to control these functions.