I lowered the rear of my coupe by flipping the smallest leaf and am wondering how many coils should be cut out.

I cut out half a coil and the front still looks a little high but i dont quite trust how level my driveway is.

I see in the techwiki that the middle leaf is on top. i tried that first and it slammed right down to the rubber bump stops so thats why i just flipped the smallest one.


Any help would be much appreciated. thanks.

Sorry not in the topic of spring cutting but with your leaf flipping, do you have any comparison photos ofthe middle and smallest leaves being flipped? Even some photos of the ride height and the smallest leaf being flipped?
Cheers
Ed

sorry. I didn't take any photos of it with the smallest on top.

No worries, any pics of it now?

Here is a pic of the current rear end height




If i were to measure the gap between the top of the rear wheel and the bottom of the fender would it be same as the front gap?

i would probably check all of your tyre pressues before doing so, and id measure from the bottom of the guard lip and the lip of your rim.

i cant see why not?

the front needs to be a little higher than the back, say 10-20mm max, is this a road going car or off road?

Its will be a road car but not a daily. I did measure the pressures before hand. after work ill measure the front end spacing. and let ya know.

When you cut a coil spring shorter, you increase its spring rate ( that is, make the spring stiffer). When you remove a leaf from a spring, you reduce its spring rate ( make it less stiff). So your changes are making the two ends of the car react to bumps differently. A less permanent way of doing what you want would be to add weight to the car to compress its springs. The weight could be removed when you did not want it.

Thats not entirely a bad thing in the 1200 from my experience.
The softer rear rate helps get traction to a degree with increased rear squat (especially with a ute) and the front is too softly sprung.