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Originally Posted by ssteve
well in theory the chassis would be too stiff for the suspension and IF you had the resources to dyno your suspension and have everything compliment each other then your right there's no such thing as too stiff. All I'm saying is that for a street car, with out of the box coilovers you can very well make the chassis too stiff. In all actuality for the vast majority of 240 owners they would be best off to stiffen things up A LOT and drop a tad of spring rate and sway bar if they were on street tires, but IMO what I see a lot of is over spring under dampened cars with a lot of bar which is not going to let the suspension actually work. Ill be purchasing a s13 here shortly and be speaking more with my suspension tuner about setup but from my initial thoughts I think there's very few 240's that are truelly setup properly. I hope to have mine done and on track with only suspension/tires/brakes shortly. Once I get that sorted ill be doing a cage and more power so it will be interesting to see how much of my suspension needs to be attended to. Nice thing is, is that it will be with the widely available KW V3's so it's something that will be fairly easy to duplicate.
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Now this post I can agree with. In THEORY there is no such thing as too stiff, you just have to match the suspension. TOTALLY true. I believe that matching the suspension is the way to do it, not to "tune" the chasis stiffness. As for over stiff 240 suspension you are for the most part correct as well. The more I learn about suspension geometry, load transfer, etc...., and the more on-track experience I get, the more I see that the stock sways are fine. They just need to be adjustable. In the front of 240's a significant amount of spring is required just to keep the suspension from bottoming as there is like 2" of travel. In the rear however stiff springs are not necessary.
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