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Old 10-01-2016, 12:47 AM
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Thunder Trail
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Default Bad springs on SCTE 3.0 shocks

Spring mystery solved. 3.0 kit springs were sagged out. I put the new Red springs on and immediately could see it was better. Collar at the bottom of threads, but ride height is at 27mm RTRace. Plan to use the +4 spring cups if needed to maintain ride Height.

I thought about this for a while and devised a crude way to compare springs using a digital scale. I compressed the springs to 45mm and took a reading in grams of spring pressure. See results below:

Compressed springs to 45mm
Kit Springs
#1 720g
#2 670g

Replacement springs
#1 820g
#2 830g

Just bad springs. Look forward to track day. Now I can make other setup adjustments.
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