thinkin about cutting my project 7 down an inch and a quarter with the old dremel. Im guessin ill have to measure the 1 3/4" with the tire off/spring compressed with someone in it to ensure all sides are even. Any POSOTIVE input?

 

guess Im in for a surprise then

 

Springs cost just over $200 new, a lot less for used. Do it the right way.

 

Cutting your springs is a hard core civic/ricer move.

Just look on ebay or the for sale forum hear, you see them go all the time for good prices.

 

BAD idea. Cutting the spring LOWERS the spring rate, not what you want with a lowered car. go sell some plasma, and buy a set of used lowering springs...

 

No it doesn't; it shortens the spring. For a given diameter of wire and coil the spring rate will vary inversely to the number of coils within a given distance. Add coils and a spring gets softer, subtract them and it gets harder. Given the way coil springs are wound at the ends most springs will get harder when you remove a portion of it.

All that said cutting springs is still a BAD idea as ptrhahn says. Lowering springs are so cheap there is no sense in cutting them.

 

My bad, i read that article the wrong way. Anyway, still a bad idea.

 

Bad idea or not, I cut 1 complete round out of the front coils on my 3, then added KYB rally strut cartridges(sp) and have no problems. This was done many, many yrs ago. Just don't ever use a cutting torch or heat a spring to lower the vehicle.

 

I think the problem is that the cut spring may have a too-stiff spring rate for your shocks to deal with. I guess one could calculate the new spring rate after removing one coil, but my college physics formulas escapes me @ the moment LOL