Cutting springs

[Shadow1]

Way to break it down shadow hope you didn't scare him away.. lol

oh well. he can either listen or he can go out risk the his life and/or the lives of others and lose his life or get put in jail for taking someone else's life. why dont the newbs search when they get up here? i swear i see like 40,000 threads of "should i cut my springs" every day. wtf?

[jimmybean21]

oh well. he can either listen or he can go out risk the his life and/or the lives of others and lose his life or get put in jail for taking someone else's life. why dont the newbs search when they get up here? i swear i see like 40,000 threads of "should i cut my springs" every day. wtf?

I know I know, but that's why your a moderator you good at what you do. All you can do is give the advice its to the person to take it.

[DrSzSoLDIeR]

NO

[Shadow1]

I know I know, but that's why your a moderator you good at what you do. All you can do is give the advice its to the person to take it.

true. i try to be. lol. i may not know a lot myself but i try to feed off the knowledge i get from others. then spread it to the new ones of the cb7 tuner world...

NO

you should know better. one word answers in a section where post count can get your post count reset to zero or even banned. and before you say "i dont care.", you'll be posting in the beginner section and not allowed to post in the regular section nor able to get into the classifieds. so think long and hard about that....

[PhatAccord]

i gotta agree w/ a lot of the fellas here...dont do it..even if its just temporary...just wait till you got the dough..besides, i like to keep a lot of my original/stock parts the way they are, cause you never know when youre gonna need em...

[nate'sCB7]

i gotta agree w/ a lot of the fellas here...dont do it..even if its just temporary...just wait till you got the dough..besides, i like to keep a lot of my original/stock parts the way they are, cause you never know when youre gonna need em...

very true! i agree completely, keeping stock parts is very smart cuz if your aftermarket parts just so happen to break/fail and you've disposed your stock parts, what do do you have to fall back on.....nothing!

[deevergote]

I have stock parts in my basement from 2003.

And yeah, cutting springs is VERY dangerous. Decent springs aren't all that expensive, and you can find a used set for very little money in many cases... There's no need to do something stupid. If you can't afford $100-$200 for a set of springs, then you can't afford to modify your car. Also, you need to get new shocks when you lower your car. Those 18 year old stockers aren't going to cut it!

If that's too expensive for you... buy some stickers. This isn't the game for you. When you cheap out on your suspension, tires, and brakes, you're playing with your life, the lives of your passengers, and the lives of anyone that you might hit WHEN (not if... WHEN) your car fails and you lose control.

[XcluziveAZN]

I have stock parts in my basement from 2003.

And yeah, cutting springs is VERY dangerous. Decent springs aren't all that expensive, and you can find a used set for very little money in many cases... There's no need to do something stupid. If you can't afford $100-$200 for a set of springs, then you can't afford to modify your car. Also, you need to get new shocks when you lower your car. Those 18 year old stockers aren't going to cut it!

If that's too expensive for you... buy some stickers. This isn't the game for you. When you cheap out on your suspension, tires, and brakes, you're playing with your life, the lives of your passengers, and the lives of anyone that you might hit WHEN (not if... WHEN) your car fails and you lose control.

I think you need to save that into notepad....that way you don't have to retype all that over again.

[deevergote]

After reading through the first page of this thread... I didn't really have to say it at all! Everything I said there has already been said, perhaps even better, by plenty of the more experienced and trusted members of this site.

[BlackSheep]

done it a few times and did it on my car now rides like shit obviously even with new struts. I'm getting coilovers come tax time.

[Zmatt]

if cutting springs is such a bad idea then why do so many people want to do it? It seems like sooner or later people would figure out its a bad idea if everyone who knows what they are talking about says it's a bad idea.

I never even thought of cutting springs. I had always assumed that you just replace the suspension with a different one and that was the only option.

[bcjammerx]

if cutting springs is such a bad idea then why do so many people want to do it?

because they are stupid idiots that's why

why would "everyone wanting to do something" mean it's a good idea? Lots of folks do LOTS of things that are beyond stupid...doesn't make it not stupid

[DrSzSoLDIeR]

because they are stupid idiots that's why

why would "everyone wanting to do something" mean it's a good idea? Lots of folks do LOTS of things that are beyond stupid...doesn't make it not stupid

lol i like the way you sphrased that

[BLUBB2]

Do it right or dont do it at all.

[BlackSheep]

that's the way it went down when you didn't have a spring for your car or it only lowered it like .5 inches and you wanted to be slammed. Honestly i've never ever had a problem with it, all the people talking shit have never done it because they're scared something will mess up but it won't. I had a old jetta i did this to and it rode just like the lower springs i later put on it. I had it done to the rear of my racing beat springs because i had bad rake and i wanted to flatten it out. There again it rode great and autoXed great.

I say do what you want, vw guys run coilover sleeves without the sleeves so basically a tiny bit of spring and that's not even on mcphereson strut on the rear and they never have problems. I even read a performance book back in the day that told you to do this to increase spring rates.