Can we use a hair dryer and butter knife to cut a coil off to lower it?

Surely there must be more to the dampening in the strut tops and spring perches too, metal on plastic contact can't be good

what's not to understand? they're trying to see if running these fiberglass coil springs will be a viable technology to use in future cars. Needs more off road racing development I think


edit: and they wont rust and make the lick of paint look povo!

Coil springs ?

I don't understand

you embarrass us all Mik! ;)

I embarrass my self don't need my car to do it too

Looks like those new korean fried potato thingys.

Datsun are wonderful as they are simple, light and nimble and 1200 coupes
are fast changing from the poor mans porsche to gotta have classic that
is easy to mod with latest tech that can embarrass almost anything.

I wonder what the lifespan is of the springs? Could be interesting if made with a hemp resin or similar. New meaning to higher spring rates

Dynamically some of the spring mass would act as "unsprung mass" since it's moving relative to the body and is connected to the "unsprung" end. I wonder if they creak and groan like some other grp springs can. I'm sure they've sorted that out.

Does sound silly though unsprung spings.

sweet...

they refer to a spring as "unsprung" weight.... is that an oxymoron?

Has anyone ever made frp panels for the coupe?