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Topic: can stock rear springs on fox be used to lower
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gercolla1
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I know the fronts can be cut. What can be done to the rears. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Sf Bay Area
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66 AC COBRA
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dont cut ur springs, u will regret it the first time u drive it
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Luke87GT
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Although I don't think cutting springs is the best way to go I have done it before with "ok" results, and rear springs CAN be cut too.
What you want to do is cut from the top. The first full coil is known as the "dead" coil. Cutting only this coil will hardly lower the car at all. I would cut about 1/2 coil past the dead coil. Anything beyond this, and ride quality will suffer big time. Good Luck.
Cheers
Luke
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Stangless
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Joooestang66
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Don't ever cut your springs! It's ghetto. But you're from Oakland so I guess it's ok.
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Hungry Hippo
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cutting a coil off stock springs is not as bad as people make them out.
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gercolla1
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Thank "ma peeps" and joe 66 I KNOW YOU JUST JOKIN'
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highofftiresmoke
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u can heat them , thats how my friends dad lowered her car, worked great, he is hellla good at it though.
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gercolla1
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I'm doin' it,watch me. ![[dance]](graemlins/dance.gif)
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Sf Bay Area
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AJBlackGT
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Ya I jpicked up PurpleNotch's coupe a few weeks ago, he had the back springs cut 2 coils I think and then he cut 3/4 of a coil off the front springs. It does ride pretty rough, but any time you lower a car that much the ride quality will suffer, just maybe not quite so much with eibachs or something.
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gercolla1
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Oh yeah,that notch does look siiick indeed. That is basically the look I'm after. ![[burnout]](graemlins/burnout.gif)
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The Nick
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Wait... so you cut the Sportlines too? Or is that with uncut Sportlines?
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hoppin50
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the front ones you can cut to get the height you lookin for. but the rears if you cut them too much they will fall out of the car when you go over a bump sideways. i have better luck heating the coil up top start next to the dead coil and work you way down that way you dont lose spring pressure as if you do it in the middle. and be careful dont drive the car or sit in it until the springs have fully cooled down. its not a bad idea to cut aftermarket ones either because they already have a stiffer rate but if you cut to much they are more expensive to replace. i used convertible springs since that is the heaviest body style
[ January 11, 2004, 10:44 PM: Message edited by: hoppin50 ]
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HaulinAss Motorsports
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quote:
Originally posted by Joooestang66:
Don't ever cut your springs! It's ghetto. But you're from Oakland so I guess it's ok.
![[worship]](graemlins/worship.gif) thats to fukkin funny
Posts: 22494 | From: Sacramento | Registered: Nov 2001
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gercolla1
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quote:
Originally posted by HaulnAssMaro:
quote:
Originally posted by Joooestang66:
Don't ever cut your springs! It's ghetto. But you're from Oakland so I guess it's ok.
thats to fukkin funny
you'll be haulin ass alright with that fool joe 66 from "elk's piss". Someday I might find out where that is!
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