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Car Suspension Parts To Make Your Car Ride And Handle Better
Car Suspension Tuning For Performance
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No matter what you drive, your vehicle’s development
engineers were faced with considerations that ultimately
affected its performance – bumper heights, snow chain
clearance and the number of people the vehicle was designed to
carry. To accommodate all of those variables, your car
suspension had to be tuned for average conditions,
acceleration, braking and cornering. But if you’re not
average, you may want to tune your car suspension to better
match your driving style.
If you want the performance look and feel as you cruise the
streets and go through the corners, then springs can provide
the more aggressive appearance and more sure-footed handling
that will help even the world’s finest automobiles perform
even better.
Without a doubt, there is no more cost-effective way to
enhance a vehicle’s performance and make it look more
distinctive than a set of wheels and tires. However, the
additional cornering and stopping traction they provide may
be limited by the ability of your stock car suspension to
manage all of the increased traction. So in order to get
more performance out of high performance tires, a
car
suspension upgrade may be beneficial.
Car Suspension Modification
Considerations
The first step is to lower your vehicle and increase its
spring rate. Caution: Modifying a vehicle’s original springs
almost always ends with unsatisfactory results. Cutting off
coils or collapsing stock springs with heat may adversely
affect the spring rate, multiply internal stresses and prevent
them from fitting the vehicle’s suspension correctly.
Properly engineered aftermarket sport springs are not only
designed to fit the vehicle, but will enhance its appearance
and performance at the same time.
Vehicle appearance is improved in two ways. Sport springs
will typically lower vehicles to give them a more aggressive
stance and reduce the vehicle’s fender well gap (the
distance between the top of the tire and the edge of the wheel
well). When your vehicle is viewed from the side, the wheel
and tire will appear to properly "fill in" the wheel
well. When your vehicle shows fender well gap, it may look out
of proportion and even create the illusion that the vehicle
has been "lifted." Sport springs complete your
vehicle’s appearance by lowering the vehicle and reducing
fender well gap.
Vehicle performance is also improved by sport springs in
two ways: they reduce ride height and have higher spring rates
that are carefully tuned to the vehicle. This ensures
sufficient load capacity and lowers the vehicle’s center of
gravity for added stability. It also improves the vehicle’s
responsiveness by reducing body movement, allowing the tires
to function more effectively when performing at their limits.
Race Car Suspension Tuning
Another solution is a complete coil-over system that
combines springs and shocks along with an adjustable perch to
support the spring. This set-up is most like a race car
suspension set-up in
that it allows tuning of the vehicle through ride height
adjustment.
 Eibach
and H&R
are two of the world’s leading spring manufacturers. They
supply casual driving car suspension springs as well as race
car suspension springs for professional racing teams. Their products are built to the
highest standards and meet Germany’s tough TUV standards.
 KONI
and KYB
are two of the world's top manufacturers of performance
shock absorbers for your family sedan, SUV or racing tuned
vehicle.
 At the same time, Praxis Advanced Suspension Systems
is probably the best known and trusted manufacturer of
up-graded suspension systems for BMW and Subaru.
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