Is this normal..

[Morton]

Fascinating Your coils appear to be thicker than mine, and you appear to have less of them!

edit: I'd be curious to see those springs off the car (not that we're going to do this ) to see if they have the same dramatic close-wound / loose-wound setup as OPs car has.

 

[AirStrike]

Fascinating Your coils appear to be thicker than mine, and you appear to have less of them!

edit: I'd be curious to see those springs off the car (not that we're going to do this ) to see if they have the same dramatic close-wound / loose-wound setup as OPs car has.

Interesting indeed. I might have the box in the shed still I'll grab the part number for you.

 

[AirStrike]

Box is gone so no good on the part number. As far as I know though they were just VB-VP V8 supers.

 

[savage1987]

nothing to input unfortunately, BUT I post here nonetheless so it comes up in my searches and I shall see the final outcome

I have supers all round, don't think they bind but can't remember having looked. In the past had same problem as AirStrike, hard to see past 19s w/dish

 

[azkwazere]

nothing to input unfortunately, BUT I post here nonetheless so it comes up in my searches and I shall see the final outcome

I have supers all round, don't think they bind but can't remember having looked. In the past had same problem as AirStrike, hard to see past 19s w/dish

lol... My Vp (v6) has no binding except for the very top half coil as airstrikes...

Thats on supers.

As i said earlier, there should be thicker and less coils in the supers to take extra load and retain natural travel. Shorter = stiffer hence why cutting is bad as you just have less coils without the spacing and thickening of a proper shorter coil. IMHO, the op's springs are either very different, wrong or stuffed. There should be no binding static. if they sit like that at rest then if you run over something, there is like 2-3 coils to recoil, period. The only situation where they would work is if the front lifted out of a ditch say and the other 3-4 coils could expand then recoil, however, they would provide little to no dameneing.

aZk.

 

[Brin]

Well after jumping in my engine bay for 10 mins whilst the other half had his hands under the wheel arch.. we've come to the conclusion that its something in the shocker/strut.

He says there is a nut, right up in near the coil near the top in there thats possbily come loose.. not the top hat. underneath.

when someone bouncy bounced on the car, i had my hand on the spring and i could feel it creaking in my hand.. poop.

 

[Morton]

Hahaha. I think you guys are right. Me, Brin, and others I've seen are running a different spec spring from Kings. I grabbed mine second hand from the wreckers, so I have no idea about my part number

Even though my fronts have a couple coils give in them, they don't seem to fully bind during hard driving. I've driven a car with springs that used to bind in hard cornering, (and I wish I brought a neck brace), and my springs handle rough roads, high-g cornering etc without any issues.

I'll agree with this, though: it's FAR from an ideal setup. I wish I could afford coilovers *gazes into the sunset*

 

[Brin]

I'll also agree, i cant afford coilovers either. My part nos were khrl and khfl although i traded the wrecker the rears for even lower ones. These ones are about 3cm lower then the springs in the pic i posted

 

[8rody]

check the caster bar / z rod / radius rod. Tighten the nuts on both ends of the control arm and the k-frame.
Mine was loose and made this really un-nerving clunk - as the caster changed (going over bumps, rapid steering etc). :|

Probably best to throw some nolothane bushels in while your at it.

 

[bj42turbo]

Just a thought is it possible those springs are not Commodore springs and were off maybe a lighter car.


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