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How much shorter are the Aspire rear springs than the Festivas? I'm assuming they're shorter because the spring perch is higher on the shock.
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Ian
Calgary AB, Canada
93 L B6T: June 2016 FOTM
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My observations are that both are the same length and both measured out to within one pound of each other in stiffness.
-'89L Festiva with about 120K miles
-'96 Aspire with around 65K miles
I figure that one pound was probably due to fatigue from being in my older, higher mileage Festiva compared with the newer Aspire parts.
I'd say there is no appreciable difference. Use the "freshest" springs you can get for either one. Best thing to do would be to measure them.
FYI, I think Roger has some heavy duty (not "sport") spring sets available for the Festiva. They are a little more expensive though. I don't know if he'd just sell the rears.
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I hope you are right. I just put the R Aspires in my 89 this weekend. They looked exactly the same, free length and number of coils. I didn't bother to measure them figuring you had already taken care of the scientific stuff.
I think I am going to wimp out and just use the Festy fronts and not cut the Aspires.
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