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Originally Posted by AreteAuto
Another piece of advice. Don't use lowering springs like I did. They increase the angle and don't provide much more resistance to axle travel than the stock springs. If you go lower, use coils to prevent the axles from reaching as extreme of angles.
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This isn't exactly wrong, just a little misleading. Coilovers will not magically save your axles. Springs and coils both do exactly the same thing in regards to lowering by placing the wheel deeper into it's travel. Neither change anything about the suspension geometry, it still follows the same path, and the axle still follows the same deflection. The issue stems from deep lowering. Both springs and coilovers are capable of lowering the car too much, adversely affecting shaft angle. This part we can all agree on.
The only beneficial thing coilovers
might offer over springs (and the point I believe you're trying to make) is stiffness; under extreme compression a coilover might theoretically resist bottoming a little more. This is extremely difficult to prove however, as coilovers would need to be individually measured for spring stiffness, damper settings, eye to eye, stroke, bump stop thickness/durometer, etc. IMO it's too many variables to lay a blanket statement.