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[gulf-mini-sky]

hi all,
i was woundering if sports cones/donuts make a difference to my rear suspention, as on ebay they say they need replacing every five years and the compertion ones help prevent body roll is this just a sales pitch, as mine dont look worn at all they look brand new just a bit greyer but they are old and standered?
thanks alot - michael

[Bungle]

the sports ones are made of a harder compound giving a firmer ride

[gulf-mini-sky]

i also have gaz asorbers on the back and they are set no all the way minus and the adjuster is broke so if i get sports cones will a bit of stiffness compensate and work well in the corners as thereticly it shold then have handling and good road holding?

[monster_mini]

You'd do much better to replace or try and get repaired the shock's. even though shock absorbers aren't really designed to increase car spring rate(not directly anyway) on a mini its the cheapest way! if you want to stiffen the back up, having adjustable shock absorbers.... which actually adjust to make stiffer will help

[Wil_h]

You'd do much better to replace or try and get repaired the shock's. even though shock absorbers aren't really designed to increase car spring rate(not directly anyway) on a mini its the cheapest way! if you want to stiffen the back up, having adjustable shock absorbers.... which actually adjust to make stiffer will help

Not really. The damper will make the car feel more bouncy if you put them on full stiff, and will make the car more stable, but they don't materiallly affect the spring rate.

So if your rear wheel s were rubbing round corners, mo matter how stiff your damper is it will still rub.

Remember, you are only sdjusting the bump, not the rebound when you turn the screw on your dampers.

[Spitz]

"Remember, you are only sdjusting the bump, not the rebound when you turn the screw on your dampers."

GAZ shocks adjust the rebound equally. You can't pull these buggers open when set on stiff.!

[gulf-mini-sky]

i have looked into this a bit more now and im thinking of changing the cones to springs, as i found a website which sell a viriaty from soft to fastroad and even racespec, which are not advised for road use as you can imagine lol. so i was going to go for fast road but i have heard i rumour that springs have more body roll than rubber cones... so i got thinking maybe then i can get anti-roll bars to compensate as i was considering them before but got talked out of it for road usuage. what do you think?

[gulf-mini-sky]

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[Tupers]

Personally I think you'd be better off with Mini Spares red dot rubber cones and maybe ARBs if you still felt it rolled to much.

There's been a lot of discussion on hear about the pros on a cons of the coil spring conversion and I believe most of the concerns circle around the coils not being long enough to provide a varied enough spring rate. The town ride springs are certainly much more comfortable that standard cones new or old but due to their lacking a varied spring rate tend to make the car wallow and bounce more than desired.

Edited by Tupers, 29 December 2011 - 02:02 AM.

[gulf-mini-sky]

cant find red dot rubber cones on there website

[Tupers]

Here ya go. Clicky