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Originally Posted by oilspot
Here's a uneducated question on this old thread that I was looking at. What would the result of just cutting the stock spring be. I'm thinking with less spring to "spring" it would tighten up thus giving a similar effect to a high dollar lowering spring.
Has anybody tried cutting springs???
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It's generally frowned upon for the reason that the spring rate changes. The rate goes up and the spring becomes stiffer. On a M/B, personally, I don't think it is that big of a deal. If you remove 1 coil out of 15, you have stiffened the spring by less than 7%.
I'm going to do exactly that on the SDL's front springs. I want to lower it by about 1 inch. This will be about 1/2 to 3/4 of one coil. Sure beats spending a ton of money on lowering springs that will cause it to ride like a tank.