progressive springs for KWV3's?

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Jan 19, 2009, 06:35 PM

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so did you change the damper settings after the springs?

also 8mm taller than the main spring + helper spring? or just main spring? ie did u leave the helper in?

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Jan 19, 2009, 06:52 PM

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so did you change the damper settings after the springs?

also 8mm taller than the main spring + helper spring? or just main spring? ie did u leave the helper in?

I left the dampers at the recommended KW rate, 9 clicks open for rebound, and the bump set at 3/4 turns open.

The Hypercoils were 8 mm taller (main springs - not a big difference, and is fine due to the slightly lower rate). I only replaced the main springs (so they are coupled with the helpers)

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Jan 19, 2009, 07:12 PM

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cool.

did you reset the damp settings? I find I need todo this quite often otherwise the ride seems to get worse - maybe placebo type thing thou

hrmm so how much did the coils set you back? and what was the part number!

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Jan 19, 2009, 07:44 PM

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bought the set from GTWORX - shipping to AU would he prohibitive for you though - lol.

Part Number = Hypercoil 7M0550

I didn't reset the damping settings after I installed them, but will set the rebound before taking off to work tomorrow.

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Jan 19, 2009, 07:56 PM

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BTW, GTWorx released their "mild" or "spicy" spring sets for the the V3's - lol... That's a great naming scheme

Click here.

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Jan 19, 2009, 08:19 PM

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funks....i've got a little write-up i did on how to set damper settings when starting from scratch. when i find it i'll PM it to you.

- andrew

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Jan 19, 2009, 09:58 PM

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pm me too . just out of interests sake.

I have seen a few "howto" set dampers and stuff, another can't hurt

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Jan 20, 2009, 04:03 PM

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i've got a little write-up i did on how to set damper settings when starting from scratch

- andrew

Would you be willing to share with the rest of us?

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Jan 20, 2009, 07:29 PM

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sending some PMs.

- drew

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Jan 23, 2009, 10:46 AM

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So we've got these ready to go. It's gonna be a nice set-up and we can option these mild or spicy set-ups on new KW coilovers. I'll post up a thread in a minute.

- Andrew

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