Spring rating

LukeEP82

LukeEP82

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What is spring rating, how can you tell if its a stiff spring or a soft spring and dose any one know the spring rating for whiteline springs.

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Luke
 
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LukeEP82 said:
What is spring rating, how can you tell if its a stiff spring or a soft spring and dose any one know the spring rating for whiteline springs.

Thanks

Luke
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Spring Rate is the amount of weight needed to compress a spring. Springs are rated in LB/in (in metric system kg/mm), or specifically, how many pounds of weight are required to depress the spring by one inch. To convert LB/in to kg/mm international, you must divide divide figure by 56.

Consider you have 2 springs having different spring rates: One with 345 g/mm and the other with 480 g/mm. So what does it mean?

It means the 1st spring will compress 1 mm if you put a load of 345 grams, while the 2nd one will not. The 2nd one will need a 480 g. load to compress 1 mm. According to this, we can say that the 2nd spring is harder than the 1st one, or we can state that:

Springs that have a low Spring Rate are soft, while springs that have a high Spring Rate are stiffer.

That being said...there are two types of spring: Linear and Progreesive

Whiteline springs are progreesive..that is: they get stiffer the more they are compreesed. I dont know the spring rate thou
 
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