anybody Chopped springs

[Larrymhemenez]

Since i am a cheap *** how do i chop My springs so i can lower my car hahahaha anybody done that yet

[lookout4theyeti]

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If your going to do it, please at least buy aftermarket shocks. Cutting your springs increases your spring rate, and having the stock shocks is gonna make for one hell of a ride.

This should be in suspension.

[Larrymhemenez]

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lol im cheap right now on cash lol

[3.4orNothing]

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lol im cheap right now on cash lol

get a next job and do the things right...chopped springs???? hell of a ride,,,,you will b sorry you chopped them,,,but you can go ahead and do it ,,its your car.

[crushedout]

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I've never done it but have read people that have, if you decide to I would start with half a coil. Remember you can cut out as much as you want but cant put it back

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

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My advise: if you don't have the money to do it right, don't do it at all.

[landj]

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Stock I'm scraping the asphalt all the time, thankfully it's only been the airdam or just a scraping of the cat. I've seen so many cars with chopped springs and bad shocks. If it's going to sit in your front yard, then it looks cool. Respectfully, when I see a chop job on the street, the bouncing and poorly aligned broken down suspension just looks pathetic (the cars with struts are the absolute worse).

[PewterBird]

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Do you know what ricer bouce is?

If you chop your spring you will find out.

[josh98bird]

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If its that important to you... sell some things on ebay, work a few extra hours, save some loose change and find some used online.

[Bonemaro]

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Allow me to speak from personal experience.

In 1991, I cut my springs on my Z24 Cavalier. The ride quality was horible, but that was the least of my problems. Like the rear springs of the Camaro, the Z24's springs were tapered. Once they were cut, they didn't fit quite right anymore. On the way home, while on the highway doing 70MPH, one of the front springs popped out of it's perch, spun around and the cut side plowed itself into the side wall of my tire. The tire was ripped to shreds and I lost control of the car. After spinning several times and soiling my pants, I was lucky that I hit nothing and nothing hit me.

So my advise to you is do it right or don't do it. Springs are designed to fit in there a certain way and you don't want to loose it like I did.

[IwannaCamarosoBad]

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Allow me to speak from personal experience.

In 1991, I cut my springs on my Z24 Cavalier. The ride quality was horible, but that was the least of my problems. Like the rear springs of the Camaro, the Z24's springs were tapered. Once they were cut, they didn't fit quite right anymore. On the way home, while on the highway doing 70MPH, one of the front springs popped out of it's perch, spun around and the cut side plowed itself into the side wall of my tire. The tire was ripped to shreds and I lost control of the car. After spinning several times and soiling my pants, I was lucky that I hit nothing and nothing hit me.

So my advise to you is do it right or don't do it. Springs are designed to fit in there a certain way and you don't want to loose it like I did.

^^^ Crazy story

[josh98bird]

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Words of Wisdom starring Bonemaro

[savagecamaro96]

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what about the heater hose mod?
according to bone's story woulddent that mean the same thing if you had no isolators?

as in the spring could fall out/ not ride right

[vanbibber]

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My advise: if you don't have the money to do it right, don't do it at all.

times mf'n 2

[95astrovan]

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times mf'n 2

you is mf'n rizzight...x3

chopping anything other than a roof can really get risky...and even that can mess ya up if u forget to get out of the car while it's being done!