I am told it works on leaf springs as well

My boss told me this, an alternitive to cutting springs.

jack the car up and put axle stands under the suspension(so wheel is off and suspension is compressed)(4 post hoist may be better for this!)

Then put blocks of whatever under the chassis/sill the same hieght as you want your ride height to be.

Then fire up your oxy torch and heat up the springs untill they sag with the heat. so the car will lower itself onto the blocks you put under the chassis/sill!

Still wouldnt reccomend it though! Ive never tried it and ive never cut springs.... 1000s dont have coil spings you see

I must admit that my 1200 went around Sandown with rear 180sx cut springs and is handled ok...if I lift the front wheels of the ground though the springs will fall out of their perches....so I think that falls into the stupid amounts category.

why does every one think that just coz a spring is cut that it results in a bad ride, you dont have to make it sit on bump stops

if you dont cut stupid amounts out it should be fine, if you want to be real good you can go get some rear springs out af a bigger datsun to up the spring rate at the same time

a car will ride bad if you get a pro to reset the springs to far, its just coz you have taken to much travel out of the spring

hahahah dont do it man not a good idea...
i've done it to my charade now on the bump stops woest ride ever

I imagine there's a reason why this is illegal in Australia...at least I've been told it's illegal?

Screw paying someone to cut coils. In a macpherson strut as long as its not cut to crazy levels and still retains most of its travel its nbot really dangerous.

How can a coil snap off??????? just becasue its a cut spring

is that coz the pro wont just keep cutting to see when it stops looking cool

I have a mate who has an old 1974 lancer, use to be called PINK BITS and we lapped in IPSWICH back in the mid 90's. BOGANS. Anyway we went for the up market "BOSCH" suspension and lopped 2 coils off each front side, it sat a little low but it was a sweet ride. One day we hit a big pot hole, BANG, snapped another coil off, we sood back, looked at it and went bugger it and lopped 1 more coil off the unbroken side, man it sat real mean looking but we had to cut the bump stops in half. POINT BEING, IF YOUR GUNNA CUT YA SPRINGS AT LEAST GET IT DONE BY A PRO.

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