Originally Posted by
Granpa
I really think you need to rethink this. A Mini is so nose heavy that it would never lift the nose that much. Also, when you get the rearward weight transfer, you will get wheel spin. You would never get enough wt transfer to lift the springs off their perches.
Rebound in shocks can be desireable, but not for the reason you state. You build in rebound to get a quicker reacting shock on the rebound stroke of the shock. This can be used with certain set ups. Pulling to one side or the other when accelerating out of a corner could be helped with a little rebound in the shocks.
This pulling from one side or the other with an M05 has little or nothing to do with the nose lifting on acceleration. Has more to do with the diff and set up than anything else.
On a side note, I've been running a stock M05 ball diff for 6 months now and have had no reliability problems. However, I did use a little common sense and did not crank it down tight as a TA03 ball diff. Works really well and don't see much if any "diffing out".
Granpa I made no reference to rebound in the shocks.
It is more about side to side weight transfer.
The point I was talking about was the shock length, and the effect of to much droop in the car comparative to the length of the springs.
The MO5 Pro kit has you install 6mm spacers in the shocks internaly.
As you go around the corner the inside of the car lifts and the spring becomes loose on the shock body. When the car settles back to straight the spring catches on the spring collar or the perch and the car effectivly becomes tweaked for a moment.