How do thoughts about spring rates factor into this?
Reason I ask is that I occasionally drag this around with the CSVT.
It's entirely Aluminum, about 350 pounds empty, and I try to keep the loaded tongue weight at 100 pounds or less, but it still overwhelms the stock CSVT rear suspension. Hell, two small stature adults in the back seat overwhelms the rear suspension on this car, it's woefully undersprung.
I've been unable to find numbers on CSVT OEM spring rates. When I did a strut swap recently, I carefully measured the diameter, coil count, wire size, etc. for the rear springs, but they're taper wound, and variable coil spaced, so the rate calculation is less than straight forward, in fact, it's damn complicated.
Does anyone know the rates of the CSVT factory springs? How do the H&R springs compare?
Blu, do you know what spring rate your rear GC's are? I wonder if things get worse towing-wise for you with a shorter, lower rate spring like the H&R?
My plan is to fix my car with a rear Koni coilover of my own design with 300 pounds/inch to start, we'll see how that works. Will probably just get my anti-roll with the wheel springs, as the sway bar brackets are broken and the bar is off the car anyway.