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heck, anyone that want to experiment ( I do it once in a while with
no ill effects, but only one coil) Ill sell full sets for 50.00 a set to spoc
members! (+ shipping) at that price you can experiment all you
want~!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: RE: [SPOC] cutting Sprint
springs
Well basucally what your doing
is removing some of the distance, while retaining the spring rate. They
may always be compressed, but they are still bearing some load. So if
you cut off a coil, that load is made up in partial compression of
another coil. Now there is less total travel, and the same spring rate.
Since they are supposedly engineered for handling/looks, the spring
rates should be setup for the height that they come from Sprint. You
might cut-off one coil and find out that it handles fine and doesn't
bottum out all the time. Or you might find out that it always hits the
bumpstops and doesn't work at all. So unless your brave, I wouldn't
suggest trying it :) Kevin
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On Mon 05/06, Richard Askren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Keith O. McKeever,
Jr.
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:49 PM
T o:
[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
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