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Re: Anyone cut down their springs? 700 1988

posted by  someone claiming to be Paul D. on  Tue Nov 27 01:28 CST 2001 [RELATED]

I think it varies a lot from car to car, and by how it's done.

If you cut springs on a car with progressive-wound springs, and you cut off the nice stiff springs at one end, then yes, your car will be lower, with soft boing-y springs that bottom out a lot.

If you cut the springs with a torch, then you've just reheated the heat-treated spring steel, and changed it's charactoristics, so anything goes...

If you cut a coil off a car like a BMW that only had like 4 coils to begin with, you've removed 25%! of the spring!

The Volvo front coils are not progessivly wound, they're very tall (by car standards), and if you don't use heat (I used a dremel, took 10 minutes per side) your should be good to go... (providing you use your head! don't take off half the spring and expect to have a racecar!)

Just my $.02.... :)

-Paul Demeo

1990 780T





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