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comeonstart
08-23-2006, 03:06 PM
Well, I am finally setting up the coil-overs in my sas. I need help comeing up with the proper spring rates for what I want.

Its a nissan pathfinder that weighs about 4,600 with all the weight spread more or less equally on all 4 corners. I mostly use it for general east coast trails, with occasional trips to moab.

I have 14" walker evans coil-overs that can take about 31" worth of springs. I want to have about 3" of uptravel with the rest in droop. I know this isnt normal for 14"s but my pathy is already too tall for my liking. Anyways, One guy I talked to suggested using the new 16" 600lb spring with a 14" 500, Now I started thinking about this and I dont think this will sit as low as I want it. I realize that I may be stuck with a kinda too soft rates but I will use some air bumps if this is the case to help with that. Anyways, what do the pirates suggest?

Erik D_lux
08-28-2006, 01:22 AM
500/600 would be wayyyyy tooo stiff. Do you have coilspring on now? You need a way to figure out the weight of each corner.

If you need some springs to get you going I have a bunch in my thread (see sig) for trade or sale and a couple other guys have some in that same thread too. Feel free to add your old coils to the thread if you want.

BTW my rig is aprox the same weight and I have aprox 100/500 front and 150/350 rear.