Originally posted by SVT#95:
Ok so what wears out? The valving? The seals? How come you can put stiffer struts on a car and dont need stiffer springs? Are the struts actually shorter so that they work better with the shorter springs. This is all what doesnt make sense. I mean a guy driving a SVT with a 300 pound sub box in the trunk which would lower it and inch or more probably doesnt need to replace his struts every 8k.
That sounds like an interesting engineering study. Are you up to funding it? Sometimes that is the only way to get the kind of detail that you would like. Often you can really tell all you really need to know from the experience of others. Experience has shown that if you don't change struts when you install stiffer lowering springs that you will need to do so shortly. That is valuable information. I don't even want to think about how much such an engineering study will cost.
