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Originally Posted by Malakas
I agree with that entirely, and I know that is also the opinion of TCK (there's a whole article about it on his [old school] website). I bought the 300/600 springs and I think he offers 400/700 as well.
That said, Steve Ott (well known to me and McVaughan) runs our local shop and is an ex-IMSA driver as well. He was telling me about a book he was recently reading about suspension that basically says the car should be absolutely as stiff as possible, and even though that is hard to drive, its the "job of the driver" to sort out the car... and that it will only generate its max grip by allowing the tires to get to their max potential - and that would only occur with a super stiff setup. Dont  on me here, I might be missing a key detail to the reasoning.... but I do remember the take home point of this particular book was super stiff is the way to go. |
To me stiffer is better (that's what she said... sorry had to do it) is kind of a generalization. I think the emphasis needs to be on that it is situation dependent - more like it needs to be as stiff as possible without being over stiff for that particular situation, not so much caught up on super stiff is always the way to go. 300/600 doesn't sound like it is super stiff - but it might be the optimal rate for the current conditions. Or the optimal compromise on a street/track car. I do think stiffer is faster - but you can definitely get to a point where the springs are too stiff.