- 1. GT6 front springs (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:58:26 -0700
- I am in the process of rebuilding the front suspension on the GT6 chassis that I am using on my race car project and noticed something very odd. The right spring is longer than the left one. To make
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- 2. RE: GT6 front springs (score: 1)
- Author: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@mccarty-law.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:07:59 -0600
- I too had the aluminum spacer on top of the left (driver's) side spring. I don't know if my springs were different, though, as I never measured the free length. The stock springs went immediately un
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- 3. Re: GT6 front springs (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:42:56 -0700
- Thanks, several people have suggested that the spacer is there for driver weight compensation. I looked that the springs again and the left is definitely shorter by about the thickness of the spacer
- /html/fot/2000-01/msg00220.html (9,060 bytes)
- 4. Re: GT6 front springs (score: 1)
- Author: "R. Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:32:58 -0800
- one of theAdjusting for the driveres weight was a comon practice. Notice also that the TR-3 (new and stock) had a wdge under therear springs to do the same thing. We used to have new cars sitting on
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- 5. Re: GT6 front springs (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:54:20 -0700
- Thanks Kas (as well as all others who have sent replies). That makes me feel much better about how much DPO work has been done to the car! Joe -- "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
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- 6. RE: GT6 front springs (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Bownes <rbownes@vpnet.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:52:49 -0500
- It is a factory piece put there exactly for the reason you mention. I've seen it on every unhacked GT I've looked at. And I forgot to replace it in mine once before I went to adjustable perches. Car
- /html/fot/2000-01/msg00232.html (6,770 bytes)
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