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Coil-Over Conversions Explained by Chris Alston To dispel some popular myths and help you Shock Installed Height understand which coil-over conversion is best for This is the installed length your project, it is necessary to explain in great of the shock absorber when detail about shocks and springs. For the purpose the car is fully complete and of this discussion it is assumed that your vehicle ready to drive. That length will be street driven and either autocrossed or should be within +or- 10% of road raced. Although the technical explanation is the shock’s center of travel, correct for other uses such as just autocross or so that 40% to 60% of the road racing, the specifics of spring rate and travel shock’s available bump could be outside the parameters established travel has been used. You here. This information is intended as a set of need to have adequate travel general guidelines to help you understand the in both directions or the basic principles and make informed decisions vehicle’s suspension will top- for yourself. Before we get started, review the or bottom-out as you drive definitions of the terminology I am about to use. down the road. Tire Rolling Radius The distance from the center of the spindle to the ground, for a fully inflated installed tire on a full weight completed car, is referred to as the tire rolling radius. This measurement will be slightly less than the nominal radius of the tire’s overall diameter. As an example, a Tire 25”-diameter tire may have a 12” Rolling Use fixed shock features, such tire rolling radius, because the ca