"Cheap" Hypercoil substitutes for Boge/Bilstein? Fixed Rate Eibach?
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There are no springs in a 928 suspension. There are coils however. Just like our cars are propelled by an internal combustion engine, not a motor. A motor is electric. Not sure how these misnomers entered into the automotive lexicon but htey have been around and erroneous for decades.
Are you on a mission to teach Americans to speak the Queen's English ?
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There are no springs in a 928 suspension. There are coils however. Just like our cars are propelled by an internal combustion engine, not a motor. A motor is electric. Not sure how these misnomers entered into the automotive lexicon but htey have been around and erroneous for decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_spring
http://www.car-stuff.com/coilsprings.htm
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An engine is not a motor, but a coil is a spring…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_spring
http://www.car-stuff.com/coilsprings.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_spring
http://www.car-stuff.com/coilsprings.htm
a spring is a flat surface that is often coiled. For example, mechanical watches use a spring as the tension device that makes the movements funtion. So too a spring can (still flat) be layered upon one another to increase tension and rebound. Think leaf springs.
A coil is round and often sprials in a helix.
Just because a term is often used, even in non-authoritative references like car websites and to some extent, Wikipedia, does not make it factual or correct. It just means it is commonly used, albeit incorrectly.
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Nothing insidious about it… According to Webster’s Dictionary… any device or elastic body that recovers to its original shape when released after being distorted by force is a spring.
If they aren't an authoritative source; I don't know who is.
Sorry for the Hijack Hans… carry on.
If they aren't an authoritative source; I don't know who is.
Sorry for the Hijack Hans… carry on.
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Nothing insidious about it… According to Webster’s Dictionary… any device or elastic body that recovers to its original shape when released after being distorted by force is a spring.
If they aren't an authoritative source; I don't know who is.
Sorry for the Hijack Hans… carry on.
If they aren't an authoritative source; I don't know who is.
Sorry for the Hijack Hans… carry on.
Ask a right thinking mechanical engineer to model a spring and a coil.
Technically what many think is a spring is indeed a coil. Though the terms are used interchangeably in common vernacular, they are indeed separate and different.
I'm done. Sorry about the divert.
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I guess well have to agree to disagree
http://search.globalspec.com/Product...on%20spring%20
http://www.uspto.gov/go/classificati...67/defs267.htm
http://search.globalspec.com/Product...on%20spring%20
http://www.uspto.gov/go/classificati...67/defs267.htm