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You can see how the spring is almost fully tight under the weight of the
car, except for the last coil. There's virtually no room for the spring to
compress further, which means the car will bottom out on every bump.
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A comparison of Intrax and Eibach rear springs on the 1995 Saab 900
convertible.
Intrax springs have a barrel design, where it has a number of softer coils
which are always fully compressed to compensate for a shorter length and
provide some preload when the car is up in the air. The downside is that
there's only a couple of coils left uncompressed, which limits the suspension
travel, and the ride suffers a lot. Eibach, on the other hand, uses a
progressive design, where the thickess and stiffness of the coils varies
through the spring length. It employs all of the coils at various stages of
the suspension travel, which allows for a much more comfortable ride without
having to make the spring too soft to sacrifice the handling.
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