Where to get custom length rear springs? Options

[moggy]

I've got a set of 180 rear springs from Pelican Parts on the back of my rally 914. The spring rating is perfect but unfortunaly they aren't long enough. There's too little travel on them, they seem to bind up too much. Unlike most (if not all) of you I am not interested in lowering the car.... quite the opposite, I need to raise the rear, and have more suspension travel than stock. Anyone know were I can go for springs cut to length.

Cheers

moggy

[Brett W]

Only if the spring isn't designed to give the proper rate in the beginning. Moggy, eliminate the spring shock combo and build a pushrod rocker arm setup. Then you can setup any motion ratio you want on the shock spring end. Plus you may be able to change the motion ratio as well.

Another option would be a different shock location. Maybe build a custom rear shock mount lower than the stock mount? One problem you may run into is the limit of shock travel. Keep that in mind that you may end up topping the shocks out. You could also try stacking two springs together with an intermediate centering perch. Run a softer rate on the low end and the heavy spring up top.