motorsports12
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what would flipping the leaf spring around (front for the back) do for the spring rating?
here is my situation - the car i have when i bought it has the leafs in backwards (i think this was a fast boy set up at one time) - i have bought new springs for the car and was originally going to redo all the mounts front and back and all the mounts on the rearend so that the leafs would be mounted correctly - running out of time i held one of the new leaf springs up to the old one in the reverse position just like what is on the car and it matches up - so it appears i can just drop the old ones off and remount the new ones in reverse/backwards - the problem is this puts the longer (or weaker) part of the pring in the front - but what does it do to the spring rate
last year the car handled good - i have people tell me that the car squats in the rear when i am on the gas hard which makes sense how the leafs are mounted - i would like to get the new leafs on the car just because i think the old ones are wore out - whats everyones opinion
here is my situation - the car i have when i bought it has the leafs in backwards (i think this was a fast boy set up at one time) - i have bought new springs for the car and was originally going to redo all the mounts front and back and all the mounts on the rearend so that the leafs would be mounted correctly - running out of time i held one of the new leaf springs up to the old one in the reverse position just like what is on the car and it matches up - so it appears i can just drop the old ones off and remount the new ones in reverse/backwards - the problem is this puts the longer (or weaker) part of the pring in the front - but what does it do to the spring rate
last year the car handled good - i have people tell me that the car squats in the rear when i am on the gas hard which makes sense how the leafs are mounted - i would like to get the new leafs on the car just because i think the old ones are wore out - whats everyones opinion