I'm thinking of fitting coilovers on the back of my Scamp instead of the normal Mini rubber cones. My reason for doing this is to gain some ground clearance (it's going to be quite low) and to save remaking a lot of rusty bits I need to cut off. The Mk2 Scamp does away with a normak subframe and the cones fit directly to the chassis.
I 've read a bit about coilovers not working that well on Minis because the springs are too small in diameter to be made with a progressive rate, not sure if this is true. I did think that by mounting the shock at a reasonable angle it might give an amount of progressive rate but wondered if anyone could suggest how much angle it would need.
I have a couple of suspension book but they don't go into too much detail can anyone help or point me in the right direction to get some info ?
This is what the standard, rusty and slightly bent chassis looks like. To get the back end down I will move the trailing arm pivots upwards and then remake the wheelarches etc to match. I could do anything really but it would be easier to keep the standard trailing arms.
I 've read a bit about coilovers not working that well on Minis because the springs are too small in diameter to be made with a progressive rate, not sure if this is true. I did think that by mounting the shock at a reasonable angle it might give an amount of progressive rate but wondered if anyone could suggest how much angle it would need.
I have a couple of suspension book but they don't go into too much detail can anyone help or point me in the right direction to get some info ?
This is what the standard, rusty and slightly bent chassis looks like. To get the back end down I will move the trailing arm pivots upwards and then remake the wheelarches etc to match. I could do anything really but it would be easier to keep the standard trailing arms.
