Cutting Springs

[Oxer]

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[FreshLikeSushi]

cool story bro
you are on the wrong forum

[Cronus]

Here's my opinion. If you plan on getting rid of the car at some point don't fuck it up by cutting the stock springs. All you're going to achieve by doing that is making the car less valuable to anyone who would want to buy it. just buy a set of drop springs. You can find them used for relatively cheap and at least keep some of your ride quality.

Personally I'd just leave the car alone and drive it as is. driving lowered cars everyday is not something I miss at all.

[FreshLikeSushi]

not really.
not really at all.
in fact on the 427 galaxies...the factory cut two coils on the front and 2.5 on the rear to stiffen the car up, but they also put new shocks on it.

all cutting springs does is shorten your stroke, and increase spring rate. just like a lowering spring...

[runningpanda]

Cutting springs in general is half assing it hahaha

[FreshLikeSushi]

im sure if you had a better shock, it would have been fine. however, just everything. when you halfass it, you get halfass results

cut springs with a HD or performance shock, makes it very driveable

[runningpanda]

The springs and shocks were stock, fresh from 84 so, yeah I probably did not have the "right springs" for cutting lolersaurus

From point a to point b I got a lot of looks and laughs, and I laughed along with them . It's an old car, and for whatever reason I loved driving low slow and bouncing all the way.

[Francois Dillinger]

e36 =/= lincoln

[benz88]

if it's your point a to point b car why not just leave it as is? i would **** to daily drive a car with a shitty ride, which it will inevitably have...

Ride in my car followed by a stock lincoln. you will barely be able to notice a difference. Other then mine being low.

[Francois Dillinger]

Don't do it unless you love getting buttfucked by your seat springs.

if it's your point a to point b car why not just leave it as is? i would **** to daily drive a car with a shitty ride, which it will inevitably have...

[benz88]

I drove Ethel for about 2 years on cut springs. It's not a pretty ride, and if you're going to drive like an asshole/nascar driver, then you will indefinitely wind up fucked.

After I got down to 2 coils in front and 3 in the back, the ride was so bouncy that it was more comical than anything. Don't do it unless you love getting buttfucked by your seat springs.

On that note, I never had a real problem with cut springs other than the occasional smashing my head in to, or flying out of, the sunroof. Again, it's fun if you like to laugh at your ride quality, but if you want the same ride quality as coilovers or bags... hahaha yeah...

probably cause you dont have the right springs...

mine doesnt do ANY of that.

[runningpanda]

I drove Ethel for about 2 years on cut springs. It's not a pretty ride, and if you're going to drive like an asshole/nascar driver, then you will indefinitely wind up fucked.

After I got down to 2 coils in front and 3 in the back, the ride was so bouncy that it was more comical than anything. Don't do it unless you love getting buttfucked by your seat springs.

On that note, I never had a real problem with cut springs other than the occasional smashing my head in to, or flying out of, the sunroof. Again, it's fun if you like to laugh at your ride quality, but if you want the same ride quality as coilovers or bags... hahaha yeah...

[FreshLikeSushi]

no, it isnt any different.

a linear spring is a linear spring man. they all react the same. they get stiffer the shorter they are. if you have a matching shock to accommodate said stiffness, your car will ride as it should albeit a bit stiffer

[ScrappinBeretta]

60's cars are a lil diff. besides when i drop my Fairlane 1 inch im going thru Dear born classics cuz they make lowering springs at there place

[FreshLikeSushi]

agreed. it does make it stiffer, so as long as your shocks are good, then it will be fine

my galaxie has half the spring cut as awell