Mace said:
Room is not much of an issue. It IS much eastier to balance and tune a set of leaves than a set of coils...
I like my coils, they are easier IMHO, and flex is not a factor. but tuning is a LOT easier with leaves....
All hypothetical thinking here.. But if run a 1/4 elip. pack, it's accepted that it's best to use a pack with thick leaves, right?
So a 3 leaf pack having a total of 500lb-in would have each leaf possibly having a rate of ~175lb-in.
An identical pack, but 7 leaf, would have each leaf with ~75 lb-in.
Obviously, pulling 1 leaf from the 7 leaf pack makes a much smaller impact on spring rate than pulling one from the 3-leaf pack.
And, you're limited to the length of the leaf spring you designed your mounts around..
Whereas with coils, yes, you can't just "adjust" the spring rate, you have to replace coils, but that's a R&R thing, seems alot easier to me, but certainly not cheaper, unless you have access to a bunch of cheap/free coils, or your vendor lets you swap them out...
How is a 1/4 elip easier to tune than a coil setup? (I'm not for or against either setup, just pondering..)