Alright, long story short, on my coilover suspension I broke the dampening adjuster on one of my rear shocks. It happened to break on full soft I have since pulled the rear shock and it is getting replaced under warranty. Now with that said, I have a high speed mountain run with my local crew coming up on saturday, so I have a choice to make and I figure I should come and ask the experts for advice.

I do not have a true coilover setup in the rear, the shock and spring are seperate.

I can either:

1) Leave the setup as is, coilovers in the front set to firm, rear coilover springs with stock shocks

2) Replace the springs in the rear back to stock, Swap the front coilovers back to stock as well

I am not concerned about time or effort, I am concerned about safety first. I do not want to have the incorrect shocks in the rear if they are going to pose a risk of losing control during high speed driving on windy mountain roads. Any feedback is greatly appreciated, I feel this is the best place for an accurate and speedy response. If I am able to leave the stock shocks in with no danger please let me know, or otherwise if you think I should switch back to stock suspension. Also if you have any knowledge about what effect leaving the stock shocks in will have during the run, let me know as well. Please any info you can give is valued, there is no being too precise here

 

1. How much rear spring rate? And how much lower then oem? More then 450lbs, NO!

2. Only if you have enough seat time on the setup to safely do what you plan on.

3. plan "C" Stay home

 

Oh, why are your set to full stiff on the front dampers?

 

the rear is 11kg/mm front is 12.. does that mean its 11*56 = 616lb/inch in the rear so are you saying NO it will not be safe?

And I'm set on full because I have no room for soft:


And no I will not be riding that height, I believe I will be ok if I just set the front softer to match the dampening of the rear stock shock?

And as far as number 2, how much seat time would be required by throwing in a complete assembly from that front that was taken off and never dissasembled? Shouldn't they already be seated exactly how I left it when it came off the car?

 

616lbs is far too much spring to ask any oem shock to control, even if you had aftermarket shocks it's still too much (ok Tc Klines are valve for 690lbs in the rear)

Install the oem suspension, but exercise caution jumping from one setup to another and doing the kind run your talking about, that's what I ment by seat time.

I don't understand your reply about why your have the coilovers set to full stiff.