Today a lot of street-legal vehicles and off-road rigs run modern coil spring suspensions. Coil springs in their various formats have a number of advantages over traditional leaf springs and torsion ...

"Coil bind" occurs when a spring's coils stack solid at or before full camshaft lift. This develops an infinite load on the valvetrain, causing its weakest link to fail. If you're lucky, the result is ...

Take a steel rod, wrap it into a spiral shape, throw some engineered heat-treating in the mix, and you've got yourself a coil spring. That spring can be used as part of your suspension to support the ...

Leaf springs are treated like archaic tech, as they aren’t found under any of the latest industry-leading performance cars, and are often used as a point of reference that shows how “dated” a ...

Coil-sprung suspension is a low-stiction, low-maintenance approach to suspending your mountain bike, with less heat build-up than air suspension. However, unlike air suspension (where you just ...