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Springs don't lower your center of gravity that much...that doesn't come into play much until you start gettin Formula One type lowering where the wheel centers are very close to the center of gravity. If you run some calculations, lowering yer car one inch or two inches doesn't change the overturning moment much.
I agree with you on the brake dive thing...i just forgot about it. I'm not saying springs aren't important at all...but they are the least important of the upgrades. With sticky tires, i can make a 4X4 handle well. Without good shocks, every bump in the road is gonna make those sticky tires come out of contact with the road. Without properly balanced sway bars, the wrong half of the car may be gripping giving you under or oversteer...but i can overcome all of those without touching the springs. In autocross, a stock miata (pretty soft springs) with sticky tires could keep up with my highly modified car (425 lb/inch springs, koni shocks, front and rear sway bar) with hard tires, and i even had a better power to weight ratio than he did!!!
Nick
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