Hey everyone. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to cut the sportline springs down 1 round to make my car lower or if it would mess anything up or what? Suggestions tips or advice is greatly appriciated

thanks
mike

 

Unsafe to you and others on the road, and your car, if they break.

Other than that, nothing.

 

ok didnt know if it was safe or could be done all i needed

 

ff_drift_lol's new counter part.

 

We don't need 2. One must be banned.

 

haha. Anyone you runs cut springs should be banned period.

 

Agreed. People should have to pass a car iq before being allowed to post. Anyone who fails will be refered to a special section where they can be ignorant together.

 

People should have to have a minimum IQ. I'm at 146 so like 120 and up would be good.

 

cutting sportlines would be so dumb. im running them and the ride is already pretty hard.

 

Not a good idea

 

i have the sportlines and love em but i wouldn't cut them at all they're fine the way they are and besides any lower and your exhaust might hit when you hit a bump.

 

Instead of everyone teamin up on this guy, Just say NO its not safe. Buy coilovers. ****, not everyone starts out knowing everything about cars. And BY THE WAY, i was watching OVERHAULIN and saw Chip Foose cut down a set of springs to lower a car. So who here knows more than Foose???

 

Chip is more designer though. Cutting springs has always been a bad idea. Especially if done with anything that can heat up the spring enough to change it. In that episode there might not of been any better options or he might have been pressed for time or on a bit of a budget! Any true car guy would either run coil overs or custom springs. Show me 1 race team thats professional running cut springs and I will retract my statement.

So to the op cutting the springs is just generally a bad idea. And chances are the ride would get choppy youd bottom out more and risk damage to other components or at minimum would be looking as much accelerated shock and strut wear.

 

I agree 100% about cutting springs, im just saying that most guys on here have no clue WHY cutting them is bad. They just heard it from someone else.

 

plus you will bounce down the road like your on bags...some asian kid near me cut his sportlines down looks retarted

 

Yeah Mike, cutting springs is VERY dangerous. When you cut springs, you increase the spring rate.

I saw somewhere, that if you cut them, you clamp 2 rings of the spring at the top so it looks just like the stock spring. I'll find it somewhere.

Here ya go!


Look at the spring at the top, it's clamped. But even this is very unsafe. The spring itself was not made to do that. You'll bust a bunch of **** up. In the long run, it'll be cheaper just to buy a set of lowering springs. They are made to be that small

 

Also another side note,your spring will not be able to cover the distance from the bottom of the strut to the top if it's cut, maybe while it on the ground yes, bu u ever Jack up a car on cut springs? Now apply that to normal driving when u go over a small hill and catch a split second of air time, the spring could unseat itself from the strut...bottom line, don't cut it...

Ps typing on phone so **** maybe misspelled and it may hav edited some words to **** my grammar up

 

He isnt a car God. Atleast Boyd Coddington built cars from scratch, he didnt just restomod them.

Why dont you sit Foose down and ask him some race oriented questions, he would be speechless. He is a show car guy.

 

Well I just installed sportlines on my ls and it rides great,a little bounce if its a bad road,now take that a times it by about 1000x and thats what youll have. I can say right now,you will wear those struts out insanely fast and end up like some guy on here,he ruined his car by cutting his springs stupid low,I cannot find the thread right now but I know alot of people here will know exactly who im talking about lol.

 

Lets not talk about him
He's like CC08. Just saying the name make you shutter...or barf a little...depends on the season.

 

LoL CC08

 

Mike, I just tried callin you and it said your number was disconnected or changed ( i guess you didn't pay your bill lol j/k) PM your number!