JamesDowning wrote:Mike, more coils would also reduce the spring rate. Bacon has a good point though, if you did a lift through springs-only, you'd run into the issues of not enough down-motion of the suspension.
I'm talking for a given spring rate, not a given wire size. I know as you go longer for the same spring rate, the wire size goes up.
It is something that would have to be run through a spring program, like we had where I used to work... Give it a rate, a free length, a compressed length, and a cycle life (or number of coils, IIRC), and it goes to town... A regular coil spring like this could be calculated manually, but we used it for some of the rather... uh... interesting springs inside door locks...
Mike