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[QUOTE="burtlamborn, post: 24440, member: 21044"]
I'm no suspension expert, but no one else has posted yet so I'll mention a few things (that you've probably already thought of anyway.)  And all of this is just my opinion, for what it's worth.

The length of the spring has to be chosen so it works with the amount of stroke the shock has, taking into account the amount of preload that will likely be seen by the large variety of riders using the machine.  You want the spring to have enough travel so that when it's preloaded heavily, it still has enough travel that it doesn't bottom coil-to-coil before the other suspension components can do their jobs at the end of the shock stroke.  (Rising-rate linkage, bottoming cone, PDS damping, etc.)

I assume you meant purchasing a shorter spring of the same rate, in which case you already know that if you modify a spring by shortening it, you change its spring rate.

I'm sure there's a million other things to think about.  Anybody else?

Burt

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