cutting springs

[igo4bmx]

here is a better way. have four really obese people sleep in the car overnight. that should do the trick.

[LX98Civic]

Originally posted by gobig155
I am curently low on money and wondering if i should cut my springs. i have some friends who have done it and says it works fine. i also have friends who say i should never cut stock springs. what do all of you think?
P.S: my car is a 94' civic hatch if that helps.

My brother has had cut springs for several months now. He literally cut more than half of them off. There is pretty much nothing left to the spring and his car is slammed!!!
Rides like $h!t, bounces around like you are in a pinball game. His shocks are blown to hell and back as well now. He will be getting springs and shocks one day
Looks good / rides like $h!t.
He couldn't believe the way my Neuspeed's / Bilsteins rode when he was in my car a couple of weeks ago.

[slowANDfurious]

The basis of this post is that gobig155 is currently short on money and is lookingt for a cheap way to lower the ride...am i wrong, or can you get decent quality springs for only a couple hundred bucks or less? shit If your that broke, check ebay once and awhile for springs, i got some used neuspeeds in great shape for my old 91 si for $80 shipped...surely if you can afford to drive a car you can save up a couple hundred, if you cut your springs, youll just have to start saving for some new shocks as soon as you put those cut springs on...

[90CRXZCSi]

I cut my stock springs along time ago when i very first got my car. I thought it was cool but then i realized after a week that my shocks were blown. The stock shock is only meant to move around 4 inches up and down and when you cut your springs then that number that it moves up and down decreases(which means bottoming the shock out) So like i said i've had expierence with it and i would advise not to do it because it was dumb of me to and i regret it.

[csbrianp]

Another way to look at a coil spring is to see it as a long bar that is coiled. The shorter you make that bar the stiffer it becomes. Cutting off a coil will increase the stiffness of that spring 10%. This amount will go unnoticed, so your car will ride like it does now. But because you have lowered your center of gravity the car will corner better. I purchased a set of Eibach progressive lowering springs for my Accord. The front springs bottomed out over bumps constantly. I cut the original front springs and installed them. No more bottoming and a stiffer ride.

One last thing. If you want your car to handle cut your stock springs no more than 1 1/2 coils, or buy a good set of springs, and put a big sway bar in the back. You will enjoy the same ride on the street, but if you race your car on a track, it will now turn like it's suppose to.