William2 wrote:From what you say it sounds like the spring perches sold for Elans will only give you limited ride height adjustment at the expense of stiffening the suspension the more you try and increase the height i.e. compressing the spring.
no, if what I wrote let you understand that I must have poorly expressed myself. To express it differently, and hopefully more clearly :
1) a spring is a spring, no matter what it rests upon (stock tube or adjustable perch). It won't get harsher or softer when you change it from one setup to the other. And changing ride height won't change the spring rate either (so if you have adjustable perches and raise your car by say half an inch, the suspension will be exactly the same, not softer, not harsher).
2) adjustable dampers is an other, independant setting. It should not affect body height (unless there is a spring like effect in a particular damper, like N2 pressure in a gaz filled damper)
3) ride feel is affected by both spring rate and damper setting. I understand there are different schools of thought for adjusting that combination. What I go for is reasoning in term of resonant frequency (conversely optimum dampening time for a given deviation), which entails harsher damping for harder springs.
I'm glad your current setting is satisfactory. The Elan is a well balanced car to begin with, so a setting with equal perch height side to side should not imbalance the car from a stock setting. If your car feels harsher than stock and you have stock springs, my bet is that the dampers are a bit harsher than stock dampers (i.e. perches setting has nothing to do with it).
keep it on the road !