Coilover shock absorbers are one of the most common forms of suspension on our kind of cars, whether used on Mustang II-based independent front suspensions, IRS systems, or in conjunction with ...

Suspension handling is always a compromise between a good ride and good performance. Today's systems can provide both, but a little understanding of what factors affect spring rate can help you ...

Today a lot of street-legal vehicles and off-road rigs run modern coil spring suspensions. Coil springs in their various formats have a number of advantages over traditional leaf springs and torsion ...

Whether you dial in your car through trial and error or with the use of computer software, changing spring rates is all part of the process of finding a balanced ...

Coil-sprung suspension is a low-stiction, low-maintenance approach to suspending your mountain bike, with less heat build-up than air suspension. However, unlike air suspension (where you just ...

Spring rate remains about linear (Hooke's Law) until gradual coil dampening and loss boost rate. Make free length a reference dimension so spring makers can adjust it as needed to obtain load at a ...

When enduro racing burst on the scene several years ago there was an assumption that this new genre of racing would replicate the way many mountain bikers already rode, on the bikes they already owned ...

Automotive design has come a long way since Karl Benz designed the Patent Motorwagen in the late 1800s, and Henry Ford brought the T-4 powered Model T to the masses in 1908. Those early cars were ...

Helical coil springs are a mainstay in today’s automotive suspensions, with a basic design essentially unchanged since their advent. MW Industries (Rosemont, IL, US) is the largest US spring ...

What does it mean when car manufacturers list “air suspension” in the data sheet? How different is this from a double-wishbone, multi-link or MacPherson strut system? In many cases, when the term “air ...