I've deleted all my posts from this thread. Sorry for the trouble. I'll create my own threads if I want to get into more esoteric discussions.
Nothing wrong with esoteric discussions .. just need to find the right place and audience. I'm an engineer too and I get wanting to get into details and the physics and the math. However .. what is more important is to understand the big picture. This is not at you but everyone in general.
There is a lot of myth and misconception about setting up coilovers. Heck, if you follow the main board discussions, there is much nonsense discussed about plain springs. It's easy to get overwhelmed with the choices, and one can as easily mess up a CO setup as a regular setup.
What Blaine is attempting here is to provide the right information in a simple, clear way to understand without needless jargon. Not only did his post explain how to derive the right combination of springs for a coilover setup for a desired ride height, but it also explains what is it that springs really do. Did everyone notice that never once the topic of ride quality enter the picture in the entire post? Because that's determined by the shock tune. If this post doesn't make that abundantly clear, I do not know what will.
It's never easy to present a complex topic in a way such that you read it and think "I could have figured that out". It takes years of real world experience and directed learning to tease that simplicity out in the open. We are lucky to have someone like Blaine, who has both the intuition and the experience, who is willing to come here participate, and then share such useful information in an easily digestible manner.
You'll often read Blaine saying he doesn't chase numbers. That doesn't mean he doesn't understand them, but rather the opposite. He understands what matters where and he won't chase numbers for it's own sake. Everything has to fit and work well as a whole. You don't need an excel sheet calculator with hundred formulas and linked cells for that.
You are welcome to post and talk about details as much as you like. There are folks in this forum that will engage and atleast try to see if what you are saying is useful. Just make sure to understand the thread context and then post your heart's content.
Edit - before you (Sab) gets too upset, a good bit of the "you" usage above is generic.