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Racecomp Engineering · 03-06-2018, 02:12 PM

I've been talking about this for a little while now, but I wanted to "officially" gauge interest on a "fun" rally spring (i.e not a WRC caliber set-up). Not a competitive stage rally or rock jumper spring, but a slight lift and a change in spring rates to better suit gravel, snow, and other lower grip situations.

These would work with OEM dampers, but would be especially nice with Bilstein B6. Designed for OEM or smaller swaybars.

Considering a 15mm increase in height with a rear bias in spring rate. Contrary to what we do with our RCE Yellow springs, these springs would have firmer rear springs than fronts. In general, with less grip (as you'd have on gravel/snow) you want the car to be more oversteer biased and you'd want to do that via springs.

I do have some great rally contacts from my almost 14 years of working on Subaru suspensions with RCE and would work with them to get spring rates and other details right. But we are also be looking for feedback from the community.

Let us know if you'd be interested in a suspension like this!

- Andrew

(I know there's at least 1 other option out there similar to this, but I have not tried them. We'd like to do things our way regardless.)

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