parabolic springs for trialler

Hi Dave Just done my 2a, I got my springs from simmonites (£200) they advertise them at £235 but got them at a show, if you are cheeky you might get them cheeper for cash . i got a set of pro comp es9000 from rocky mountain at the lro spring show £120. The differance in on and off road performance is well worth the expense Hope this helps.

On or around 25 Aug 2003 15:52:50 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (Dave Reynolds) enlightened us thusly:

Chris Perfect had some on his trialler (but then, if course, they don't cost so much if you're the importer), he does a 2-leaf without helper rear, which is a very soft one. He also assembled a whacky front set-up using just over one and a half front springs, which gave silly amounts of articulation. Dunno how successful it was.

should find you info and an email address. Ithink he went to a 90 front axle and coil springs eventually, in a bid toarrange for the front wheels to be the furthest-forward part of the vehicle,so that it could climb walls... whether he's still got the 3/4-parabolicsetup around, I dunno. It'd be expensive to make one, really, as it uses 4front springs to make. Basically, you leave the rear shackle in place, cut a front spring so that you can bolt a bit more than half of it to the chassis above the front axle, using big long U bolts, so that you have half a spring along the chassis, with its eye below the spring hanger. You then attach a spare shackle to that, and put the complete front spring between the 2 shackles.

You need to talk to Chris about it, though, as I don't know if it was a complete success... certainly, he used it, with the 2-leaf rears, and it gave much more articulation than standard, but it may have been unstable or something.

or you could just buy the 4 springs and fit them!!! We have 2 customers using ours for comp safari and numerous club members have them for CCV and RTV, no mods are necessary, they are supplied complete with u-bolts and nuts. Beware the very cheap ones doing the rounds at the moment, they are not very good - as ever, you get what you pay for!

Richard

On or around Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:15:32 +0100, postmaster enlightened us thusly:

the point about it was that the front springs, being much shorter, gave less articulation than the back ones. I don't know how successful it was in use, though - it may have created a new set of problems...