Nick, Not really a long haul. I've been on the road coming up to 2 years now. I just never got aroung to posting in the completed builds section. Mostly because I never thought teh car was really complete. I think I had about the normal build time, about 4 years (?). That is, for builders who actually finish thier cars
I don't know for sure what the springs are made to be. I calculated their rate from the wire diameter and the coil OD using several online calculators.
The car generally is a smooth ride. I really can't complain at all for a road car. I can drive mile after mile. With my GAZ shocks, I can set the shocks for a more firm ride if I wanted to. The front seems to work nicely BUT.... I can sometimes bottom my rear tires to the inside of the rear fenders when I have a passenger and even more easily if I have any kind of load on my luggage rack. Up to 12 gallons of fuel lends another variable into the mix. It never happens with only me in the car. I have plans on increasing the rear springs maybe 50# more each to give me a bit more margin. Not much more I can do without either raising the rear fenders, which is not in the cards for my chassis, or crank up the rear ride height, but I'm not interested in doing that.
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