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Old 03-30-2008, 07:46 PM
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wow, hate **** like this and I sincerely hope those are not the new repalcement springs Derek!!! CashDude, i hope compensates you. Make sure you take a lot of pictures AS you dig into it and show the springs as the cause of damages.
Good luck and post up how Comp treats you.
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That is in fact the new "re-designed" springs.
less than 1250 miles on them!
Old 03-30-2008, 07:59 PM
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Crap!! and oh **** too. What kind of lift on the cam?
Old 03-30-2008, 08:02 PM
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I think the guy had a 212/218 525 lift with 1.8s rockers.
He claimed the car rarely seen 6300 RPM's
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Originally Posted by Derek @ EDO
I think the guy had a 212/218 525 lift with 1.8s rockers.
He claimed the car rarely seen 6300 RPM's
wow! i hate to see that. especially since theyre redesigned.
Old 03-30-2008, 09:29 PM
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oha crap . . . and that's a new set of springs !
Old 03-30-2008, 09:34 PM
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Damn, i wanna gonna but a set of them this week, but i guess ill go for something else. n e reccomendations?
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Patriot dual golds is what i will run if i go with a larger lift
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Damn I guess that if I do have the recalled batch I might just sell the ones that comp sends me and go with a different company, pos Patriot Golds... That sucks for the guys who had a spring fail, makes me kinda sceered to beat on the truck at all till I get a response from them...


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Well guys, Patriot golds according to Richard @ WCCH is a great spring.

To be honest with you id be scared to run the 918's as well, revised or not.
Look how many sets failed! Its incredible!!
I dont know if i would want to be the guinea pig here. Yes they are revised and should work from an engineering standpoint but........ Look what happened to all the other ones.

Like i said in my previous post... My new heads came with the Patriot golds and im not going to think twice about not running those. Has anyone heard of a PG spring failing?



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