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Does anyone know what the Aspire front spring rates are? Are they stiffer than the Festiva springs or are they the same?
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Oscar -
much stiffer. Aspire is much heavier car. Search for SafetyGuy's posts on "cut Aspire springs"Jim DeAngelis
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Performance Red 94 Aspire SE (Stimpson) -
stiffer is an understatement, I put them in mine uncut, kinda like a go cart, with ground clearance.it runs so sweet
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Excellent, just what I wanted to know. They look just as thin as the Festivas' so I wanted to make sure they were stiffer. Thanks!OscarComment
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I measured them as ten pounds stiffer than the Festiva springs each front side, but I don't recall if that was before cutting or not. It's at least a ballpark figure.
Rear springs were only one pound each stiffer.
Keep in mind this was from a 120K mile '89L compared to springs out of a junkyard Aspire, '96 I think. Can't remember mileage on those, but it was "fresher."
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The springs, were longer also, I ended up about 1 1/2"- 2" higher and had to adjust camber a lot to compensate.it runs so sweet
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