I just installed the Spec Miata suspension kit from MazdaSpeed with the FatCat bushings.
A very experienced racer friend of mine noted that when my car is up in the air on the lift, wheels unloaded, there is a large space (about 5 inches) between the top of the coil spring and the shock hat. He said normally people install a spacer spring to occupy that gap. The spacer spring provides no spring pressure of its own (like a helper spring would), it just occupies the space between the top of the coil and the hat, so that when the car is being tracked and you catch some air bouncing off a curb, the main coil spring cannot get loose and jam up in the hat or spring isolater under the hat. Anybody understand what I've tried to explain, and do you guys run spacer springs?
Thanks,
Jim
Sorry, I stated the gap wrong. It's more like a 2 inch gap, maybe as much as 3, but not 5 inches. My bad.