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Message: [QUOTE="mxneagle, post: 24459, member: 21267"] If you reduce the number of active coils and maintain the same spring rate you must also increase the stress in the spring wire (based on the previously noted equations) You would really need to calculate the wire stress required to achieve the desired rate and make sure that wire materials fatigue life is acceptable. I don't have my engineering books handy but all that is out there for the finding. My guess is that for OEM springs a slightly shorter spring would not be an issue. A spring half as long would probably be a disaster. Plus with the increased wire stress the spring would "sack out" faster. [/QUOTE]