lowering

[r3vlimiter]

need pointers on were to cut my springs so my car has a good stance was hopeing someone could help and maybe give some pointers

[Sagaris]

There are way too many stance-whores on these forums.

If you cut your stock springs you WILL bust your oil pan. You are much better off spending $200 on some cheap lowering springs which have increased stiffness to help avoid bottoming out from the shorter length spring .

If you do end up cutting them, remember that springs are hardened and incredibly tough to cut through. You will go through about 20 sawzall blades if you try sawing. I would use a cutoff wheel.

[xwill112x]

cut 2 coils up front and 2 in the back on the top side of the spring. you will be tucking rear tire and have like a inch of gap up front

[bryant.cw]

When you shorten a spring by cutting it, it increases the spring rate. There is less spring to be springy.

[Philo]

Mad tight mod about to happen yo.

[txtorquemade]

So.....has this been done yet? What are the results?

[619E30]

There are already many threads on this topic

[T Verdier]

When you shorten a spring by cutting it, it increases the spring rate. There is less spring to be springy.

My highschool education knowledge of physics is making me disagree with you!


Springs are very cheap compared to the time it will take you to take the strut assembley off of the car , unbolt the spring hat, cut the spring, then put it all back together. You might as well just buy some used springs. And do it "right"

[BMWkid91]

So it is posible to cut the rears Huh ? Don't they you need there perches to sit in ? and when the car's rased in the rear wouldnt they move? The fronts I cut myne two coils and its pretty Ill tho and easy.

[BMWkid91]

Post some PICs

[Sagaris]

[Philo]

/\ Very nice.

[BMWkid91]

Low Rida LOL

[JeffRR]

The stress in the spring will increase, increasing the likelihood of a spring failure (due to the reduced torsion member).

But if your slammed on the bumpers anyway, the not a whole lot will change when that spring fails.


Before you take a cut-off wheel to those springs, do a little searching on the site and find a proper lowering spring. There's a good chance you can find someone selling a used set of lowering springs.

[Sagaris]

The stress in the spring will increase, increasing the likelihood of a spring failure (due to the reduced torsion member).

But if your slammed on the bumpers anyway, the not a whole lot will change when that spring fails.


Before you take a cut-off wheel to those springs, do a little searching on the site and find a proper lowering spring. There's a good chance you can find someone selling a used set of lowering springs.

True dat.

My other car is a Toyota SUV with coil springs in the rear. One of the springs failed (corroded section became britte and fractured after hitting a pothole). The metal makes a sharp pointy angle when it breaks, the loose spring piece could have easily moved, punctured the right rear tire, most likely ending in a rollover. Not cool. While I could have just ground off the sharp point of the spring and drove with it, that would be retarded, not hella flush and unsafe so I ended up replacing both rear springs.

I dont fook around with compromising safe handling on a car by rigging my own un-engineered stuff, snap oversteer is a b**** and flipping over is a b*****.