Spring Rate for SV Alpine Front Suspension

[tigretr]

Does anyone know what the spring rate is on SV front suspension? I am thinking about going to coil overs in all four corners and am looking for a starting point. I found the answer for the rears in a recently posted thread about link type suspension (also in my near future). Any help on the fronts would be appreciated.

Brian

 

[RootesRacer]

Between 165 and 185 pounds per inch.

I run 330 on mine.

 

[bashby]

I was informed that factory for the front was 210#/in. I am running 340#/in in the front and stock leafs (with anti-windup) on the rears on my S-V.
-Bill

 

[tigretr]

Great, thanks for the info. Are you two running coil overs, or just higher rate springs up front?

Brian

 

[RootesRacer]

I am running regular coils and spax.

 

[RootesRacer]

I was informed that factory for the front was 210#/in. I am running 340#/in in the front and stock leafs (with anti-windup) on the rears on my S-V.
-Bill

You sure thats not the springs for a tiger?

 

[Series6]

A few years back I bought out a friend's inventory and in that was a set of front springs from VB, part numbers 5-5098. They have an orange paint dot. They're id'd as Tiger. Anyone know their spring rate? I called and asked once but one there knows.

 

[PROCRAFT]

Springs

We're running 450# fronts on the V8 Alpine, (keeping in mind we have fabricated a complete front crossmember) however on the Tiger we had
we ran 450# springs and felt it could use more, also we're running 170#
rears on a 5 Link setup, and this is a coil over car.

 

[bashby]

Rootes Racer: When I bought my custom springs from Coil Spring Specialties they were specific when they stated 210#/in for an Alpine but, they could have parallelax'd the #'s. In addition I found corroborating numbers from a UK site which compared all of the springs between Series' as to rates, laden/unladen lengths and diameters.
Tigretr: I am running a higher rate up front and I reduced the ride height by 2".