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A new spring installed (the installation procedure is described in
this article).
From the looks of it, it appears that the ride
is going to be much more comfortable.
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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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