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Originally posted by Someguy
No, Fumes and Texan are right. Cutting an active spring raises the spring rate. For a simplistic example: you have a 10 coil spring with a rate of 100 lb/inch. So if you place 100 lbs on the spring it will compress 1 inch, or in other words each coil will compress .1 inches. If you cut one coil off and place the same hundred pounds back on the spring then each coil will still compress .1 inch, but since you only have 9 coils the entire spring will only compress .9 inches. So the over all spring increased to 111 lb/inch.
Make sense?
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it seems spring tension and a shorter spring will conclude a high rate, but yet the spring compress with the same weight as a stock spring will compress to a shorter length.
also grinding it would not create much heat to effect the metal. its ear our hot braking system all day.
I don't believe all springs are uniform through the whole spring. aren't then ends coiled tightly?