On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ben T wrote:

> As for SPRING CLAMPS, we had some minor discussion about this last month. I
> was saying that I'd hate to be sitting on top pf that front wheel well when
> one of them broke loose. Another listee said that load PING of a breaking
> clamp that I was expecting is more like a soft snap and flop.
>
> The bottomline is you will have less coils to spring your ride whether you
> lop off a coil or clamp two adjacent coils together.

Ah, but the clamps I've seen only restrain the coils from spreading apart.
They're still free to compress further.  So unless you ran them so tight
you brought the coils right together, I don't see how the ride would be
that much stiffer.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si