Cutting springs

[CMYZ28]

If yer gonna be a Bear....Be a Grizzly

:cheers:

Speaking of Grizzly, did you know grizzly adams had a beard?

 

[Rickety]

yep....

Speaking of Grizzly, did you know grizzly adams had a beard?

 

[steve581581]

I have cut springs for frineds cars before, though it is not unsafe you will throw the spring rate off and it will ride like shit. it will not improve the handling, but if you are going after the lowered look and dont mind sacraficing ride quality go for it.

As stated go 1/4 cut at a time as you can alwayse go lower, but if you cut too much your screwed.

mine rides the exact same... i didnt even have to get another alignment

this is how much i lowered mine by cutting springs

 

[hangemhigh]

i was at team z saturday talking to dave about rear springs. he said to take a stock 5.0 spring and cut 1/2 coil to get proper ride height. that's using his upper and lower arms and 10-way strange shocks. dave says it's cool, that's all i need to hear.

 

[$uperstang]

I cut one coil off the front of my stock springs and nothing off the back. The back sat fine with the Megabite Jr.'s on their lowest setting.

By the way, I cut off one coil from the top of my front spring, I think.

Also it rides great, you wouldn't even know the difference.

 

[forced87gt]

Why wouldn't you have cut it off the bottom?

The top of the spring is flat. So it sits in the perch.

 

[turbo89gt]

mine rides the exact same... i didnt even have to get another alignment

this is how much i lowered mine by cutting springs

yeah, that looks really good!!...........the ones i had cut were coil over, maybe thats why it rode worse?? im not sure. Sweet car tho

 

[Hofmann025]

There is a noticable difference between the 4 cylinder springs and the standard v8 ones? im just wondering if the car i baught has stock v8 springs on it or were changed over to 4 cylinder ones when they did the 9" install?( ex:space between coils/taller/shorter/thicker or thinner)?

 

[$uperstang]

Why wouldn't you have cut it off the bottom?

The top of the spring is flat. So it sits in the perch.

You're right, I remember that and in fact did cut it from the bottom

 

[86 Fox]

Im not sure if mine are cut or just lowering springs to begin with, i put them up on jacks but it was hard to tell there was a green tag on them that said "MOF" on them, not sure what that meant.

 

[Musmaro]

I have cut springs on several cars. It is safe but depending on how much you cut the ride quality goes out the window. But for cheap and dirty lowering, you can't beat it.

 

[QUASAR]

If you use the Mach 1 springs you will be fine because they are a linear 250# spring. You should not cut progressive springs. Spring rate will not change on a linear spring.

^ what he said