Suspension improvement. What size and weight springs

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looking for info but can't locate it here. Don't want to go to TDS.

Question:
If I wanted to lower the ride height by about 1" and improve spring stiffness for better handling what springs should I use.

This is to replace the stock springs but keep the OE shocks. As you guess I'm on a budget.

Did this with my old Spitfire with great success for little $.

I know @Dave@DDMWorks at one time had talked about a kit and were testing springs but do not see any kits that came from this.

I understand that the preferred way would be to replace everything but that is just not going to happen anytime soon.

Thanks for the help guys.

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@Ruptured Duck or anybody else, can you tell me the max vertical movement of the rear tire using stock shocks or qa1 for that matter , Im working on a design for a new mold to incorporate welters dual exhaust into my lower tail cone fairing and also add a fender to same mold, so Im just looking to save a little time relying on someone elses study of maximum vertical tire movement , I realize it will move forward , minimally based on swing arm radius and can account for that forward movement but how high above rear tire would a fixed fender have to be to account for maximum vertical movement of tire ?

thanks anyway ,yah and its not a real quick easy one to test for , I guess I could take it into Kemko auto body where Im painting a roof to send out this week to florida and load it onto one of the two Blackhawk frame racks there. Using the two tower jacks I can chain down from the top of the roll hoops and then raise the rear tire off the rack using a floorjack till shock bottoms out, was just hoping somebody else already had this info cause Im feeling a little lazy here today lol any way, thanks again

Quote from Ruptured Duck

@kev unfortunately I don't have that information off the top of my head. Its a good question for anyone looking to do a fixed fender not attached to the swing arm.