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Originally Posted by Mitco39
If we are talking about a perfectly linear spring then there is no advantage to running any sort of preload. However springs are not perfectly linear and they tend to deviate away from hooks (ideal) law. I dont know enough about suspension to know how this affects a car on the road. But knowing that no spring is ideal I can see it having some effect on the performance of a suspension setup.
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This is what I suspected, I just don't know how big the deviation actually is. I imagine you have to put the exact spring you're talking about on a spring dyno to get an accurate idea of what that curve looks like.