I found this page on MOOG's site, It lists all of their coil springs and their specs. It's even searchable so you don't have to hunt through numbers.
Handy info to have when buying springs.
http://www.moog-suspension-parts.com/Universal_Coil_Springs.asp
Disclaimer:
Some part numbers are missing specs.
Cool, thanks; valuable when you need it.
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Here are some front spring rates:
http://pangea.stanford.edu/~schmitt/...r_springs.html
They dont point it out but im 99% certain that those rear spring rates are an 'average' rate on a progressive spring. I emailed moog a while back about spring rate on their 'cargo coils' and they sent me back a relatively high number like 270 but did say it was an average. Sounds great! Well, after i bought them and put them on the car i figured out the first few inches of compression arent much stiffer than stock (not enough for massive handling improvement), and since their progressive coils are on the tapered end of the spring it's not so easy to cut them off to get to the good stuff as it is on, say, the eibach rears.
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I did take some springs off my bosses 67 caprice (rear springs) and noticed they would fit in the rear perches of a k-car. I used rockauto's listings and your link above to find out that if you were to use certain of those you could get some RIDICULOUS stiff spring rates. I think even the stock ones i have will be pretty dang stiff after i cut half the coils off it to make it fit!
Dont push the red button.You hear me?
i put moog cargo coils on the back of my K wagon back in the late 90's. stiffened up the ride a bit, but actually lowered the ride height after they settled....exactly what i didn't want on the rear end of my car. moog makes cargo coils for LTD II's and the specs look like they might work. the wagon units are 340 lb-in rate and should give me a 3/4" rise over stock ride height that will be good for that enclosed motorcycle trailer i want to buy in a couple years.
Good info, I had been farting around about ordering a pair for the van, using the Iroc v6 Tona spec fronts
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