Cutting Springs to lower car...

[RoadRacer]

Are there any tricks to cutting the springs so I can lower my car?

I just saw jfrawley's post on cutting the springs......

[narfire]

The rears are straight forward. I used a 4 1/2" cut-off-wheel on the rears. Have to cut in two places to get them out from the shock. I believed I jacked the frame up kinda high and the spring came loose,then cut. I have IAP aftermarket and took one coil off the rear.
I did not do the fronts as I read a post/thread saying the car handles better when the lower arm is as close to parallel to the road. With 15" wheels and 205/50 tires the arm is already about 10 deg up,so I did not want to chop for the sake of looks. I don't know if you have stock springs. There was a post and thred some time ago that went into this in detail,couple of pages worth if I remember.

[So Cal Mark]

use the search feature in the top right corner and you'll find pages and pages about this subject

[pope]

The angle of the lower control arm should not change because of the size of rim or tire you have installed.

[RoadRacer]

Thanks for all the advise...... I cut my rear coils today, I took off 1.5 circle of coil. The back is 24" to fender and the front if 24.5... looks much better. I will take some off the front in the near future.

[RoadRacer]

I had to cut another half coil off the rear springs to make two complete coils so they would fit in the top and bottom seats,
now the front looks kind of high. I will have to do the fronts sooner than I planned.
Any tips on doing the fronts?

[htchevyii]

you can rotate the upper mount to any position needed, the same goes for the front.

[Daniel]

here is a link about lowering and cutting springs you should find the answers here !



http://fiatspider.com:16080/f08/viewtop ... &sk=t&sd=a



Daniel

[RoadRacer]

you can rotate the upper mount to any position needed, the same goes for the front.

Now you tell me But its good to know for the fronts.

[RoadRacer]

Those links were not too helpful for the front coils..... I had to take out the plastic wheel well so I could get the top back bolt for the upper a arm off. I then had enough clearance to get in there with a 3 inch air cutting wheel. I cut two links off and put everything back together. The height looks perfect with two off the front and two off the back. I now need thicker wheel spacers on the front because the tire is slightly rubbing on my plastic wheel well when turning hard.