Car has been lowered 10kg/mm....what does that mean?

 

that's meteric measurements do a search on www.google.com for a converter from kg/mm to inches

 

thx a lot

 

isn't that the spring rate and not the lowering height? meaning it would require 10kg to move the spring 1 mm?

 

You are correct jimster, that's a spring rate if i've ever seen one. I have no clue how you can define a lowering by a measure of spring rate; whatever it was it must ahve meant that the car's spring rate was lowered by 10kg/mm or something to that extent.

 

I was told to use a formula of 1Kg='s 56lbs. So,....10Kg should mean a spring rate of 560lbs. Which I do believe equals what Tein show's for the specs on the flex coilovers, they show both measurement systems. 10kg and 559lbs

http://www.tein.com/nissan.html

 

1kg = 2.2lbs so I don't know how that works.

 

It is the spring rate, it means that the spring will deflect 1 mm when 10Kg are applied, so for example a 10kg/mm spring is softer than a 12kg/mm spring.

 

Nevermind I worked it out. It's 10kg/mm or 559lb/inch. I didn't realise they were changing from mm to inches as well as kg to lbs.