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Mike

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2nd May, 2005 at 11:29:24am

just browsing minispares site and came across these..



they good or crap?

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2nd May, 2005 at 11:41:34am

These interested me when they first appeared. I have not spoken to anyone that has used them.

However, my personal thoughts are that in order to give the ultimate stiffness required in such a small travel would mean the springs would probably be VERY harsh.

Modern springs on cars are of a length to allow a reasonable amount of progression from soft to stiff, with the packaging confines of a mini subframe there is not the space to achieve this.
I would guess on a pure track car they would be better suited but for anything that has to negoitiate our crap UK roads probably a bit OTT for the road.

I would be interested to hear if anyone has used these though and what they thought of them?


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2nd May, 2005 at 01:29:32pm

Go on the Minimania forum and do a search. Lots of people have fitted them in the US. As far as I can remember lots of people in the US has got problems with them as well :)

But, they've got bigger problems with their government!

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Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem.

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2nd May, 2005 at 01:29:41pm

I'm also interested in hearing about these. Off to minimania then...

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2nd May, 2005 at 02:00:34pm

http://www.minimania.com/web/threadid/6459...5/msgthread.cfm

On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem.

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2nd May, 2005 at 05:31:23pm

not sure if any of you are farmiliar with go-mini?

they are a company that make v-tec frames in the states. they make their own set of these coils. and they are a lot cheaper. and look like the exact same thing

www.mini-roadster.741.com

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tvrdave

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5th May, 2005 at 05:43:15pm

The only things I've heard about these springs, from people I trust, is all bad.

Dave.

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6th May, 2005 at 11:28:52pm

They showed you how to fit them in mays 2005 miniworld, but didn't give a review on ride quality etc
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