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Originally Posted by cab4word67
OK everyone, we just got back from a 2K round trip to Montana with the C10. the ride was OK. I have 2.5" drop spindles and 4" drop coils with a 1" rubber spacer in the A arm bringing them back up to a 3" drop coil, also I am running Belltech 2104HA street shocks ft and rear, and a flip kit on the leafs in rear. I think I have a 5.5/ 7 drop not sure really. But the ride was great unless you hit some of the overpasses on the hwy, I know I hit the bump stops in front more than one time and it was a hard bonce for sure. I installed bump stops on the lower A arms with 1" of clearance to the crossmember. Does anyone know if the coil over kits will better the ride? I really like the stance. and I know that the rear is fixable too but was not the ride problem, it was the front mostly..
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The key to ride quality is effective spring and shock rate at the wheel. The big advantages to coilover kits is that they are often adjustable shocks for tuning to your liking, springs are easy to change, and the packaging allow for both the spring and shock to both be as close to the wheel as possible so the wheel rates are optimized......
With all of that said, a high quality adjustable shock with a quality spring with the right spring rate should in theory perform identical. I say all of that to say that if you like the set up you have, you may consider just changing to nice adjustable shocks and dial up compression side or possibly adjust your spring rate.