Cutting 'dead' coils usually doesn't hurt anything, but how the spring sits in the perch sometimes and may affect them popping out of them depending on how it is done. Also you do not want to use heat-based cutting tools as they will affect the tempering of the spring.
Good luck --- ... Christopher Feeny web: http://30moons.com job: Web Developer (asp, php, html, database backend, graphics) hob: online since 1983, 96 Saturn SC2, PC building, web research ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 6 May 2002, Richard Askren wrote: > That's what I always thought too. But, the Sprints "sit" differently than > the stock springs...the bottom 3 or 4 coils are always compressed (when the > vehicle is not in motion anyways), but the stock springs appeared to have > space between each coil all the time. This is why I'm wondering if it would > be OK do lop off a coil, well, maybe not OK, but not AS BAD. I guess I'm > basing the overall drop on fender gap. I have before and after pictures of > the car: the before picture showed the front and rear gaps almost the same. > The after picture shows very little gap on the front but still an inch or > more on the rear...it doesn't look like I got a 2" drop in the back, maybe > 1" > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Keith O. McKeever, Jr. > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SPOC] cutting Sprint springs > > > Richard, > From my limited technical viewpoint, as I understand it, cutting > any springs is BAD NEWS. I believe it is because that will directly > affect the weight bearing tension on those springs (which is why it will > lower your car, because the springs are now no longer under the same > "stock" tension). I didn't really get to look too closely at your car > over the weekend but on a stock Saturn the rear does sit higher than the > front, which is why when you lower the car universally 2" (in the case > of the Sprints), you still maintain that lower front-higher rear look. > I believe the only springs which cause the car to settle at a uniform > height are the Eibach's because they are set to 1.5" front / 1.8" rear, > which give the car a uniform drop with a uniform stance. > Just IMHO, I wouldn't cut the springs, although I would be > curious to see what a Sprint 2.0" drop front and a Spring Extreme 2.5" > drop rear would look like and if it would work. Ideas? > > Have fun, drive safe, ENJOY THE RIDE! > Keith O. McKeever, Jr. > AIM/YIM/MSN - Magis123 ICQ - 18700163 > President, SPOC National & SPOC PA > Member, Saturn Performance Club & I-Club > 02 Platinum Silver Metallic Subaru Impreza WRXa Sports Wagon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Visit SPOC National at http://www.spocnational.org > > Don't forget to update your Profile in the Owners Database. > > To unsubscribe from the list at any time, send an e-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any subject, and in the message text, > "Unsubscribe spoc". > > > > Visit SPOC National at http://www.spocnational.org > > Don't forget to update your Profile in the Owners Database. > > To unsubscribe from the list at any time, send an e-mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with any subject, and in the message text, "Unsubscribe >spoc". > Visit SPOC National at http://www.spocnational.org Don't forget to update your Profile in the Owners Database. To unsubscribe from the list at any time, send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any subject, and in the message text, "Unsubscribe spoc".
