While I save up for Coils eventually, I was considering cutting my springs a bit to get a little more drop. I have the stock springs in my garage and I also have H-Tech's on my vehicle.

What are the pro's and con's of cutting springs? Will it wear and tear my vehicle faster? How will it effect proformance?

 

Pros - lower, cheap
Cons - everything else

 

I don't understand people's impatience. DO NOT CUT SPRINGS. Period. You destroy the spring rates and the car can become unpredictable. Not to mention the ride quality will be absolute garbage, you will be bouncing all over the place.

Just be patient and save your money. Cutting springs is never a good alternative to patience.

 

cutting springs is 100% fail. lowering springs aren't even that much. handling ride and safety will all be compromised.

you'd be better off buying ebay garbage springs than cutting them.

 

IF cutting springs ia a fail then WHY would buying ebay springs and cutting them be OK???

 

He didn't say to get ebay springs and cut them. Might want to take a second to reread that.

 

^^^LMAO. "then" and "than" are different words.


Anyways, DO EEEETTTT. If you don't care about performance and you wanna be low and slow then just cut em. Downside is you definitely are gonna be bouncing everywhere. That's no fun. Oh yea and its dangerous.. consider that as well.
At the end of the day you decide.

Here is Errol's thread. He's a boss and is slammed on cut springs.
http://wwww.scionlife.com/forums/sho...199576&page=17

It's your car bro. Do whatever the hell you want.

 

Soooo realisticly... decreased handling, ride, and safety.

I already have H-Tech's on my car, but I want it lower and don't know if I want to invent a grand into coilovers. Especially because I'm nearing the end of modding this car.

 

You sound like you've already made up your mind before you even started this thread.

 

Why not just sell the H-techs and get S-techs?

 

Actually I haven't made up my mind, which is why I posted this thread. I'm already on Tein H-Tech Springs, but if cutting the stock springs wouldn't kill my performance then I'd do that. But from everyone reaction.. it sounds like this is a ford vs chevy type debate. You're either extremely on one side or the other.

I'm considering selling these and going with the S-Tech's but I'm not sure. If cutting my stock springs is going to reduce my performance noticeably, then I wont do that

 

first of all, i don't think stock springs has any "performance" , if you cut it it's probably going to be bouncy and such. i'd say cut it if you don't need it because you still got the h-techs.

 

It is a brains vs. non debate. You either understand a little bit about how your suspension works and know, like anyone with even a little experience does, that cutting springs downgrades handling, or you go with "tooner" opinion and cut them. It is fact vs fiction, not a difference in opinion.

 

no

 

I understand a few of you have very strong opinions on not cutting springs, but instead of going on about how it's a bad idea, can anyone give me a good reason or evidence to support that cutting springs is a bad idea?


Side note: I think I'm going to cut my stock springs and try them, if they suck then I'll go back to the H-Tech's

 

It messes with the spring rates. If you cut the springs you run the risk of your spring rates being different on all 4 corners. Springs and struts are built to work together so the springs are built with certain rates in mind. If the spring rates are altered to something they aren't supposed to be, it can cause issues with ride quality and even safety because the car can become unpredictable in emergency situations. Not to mention a bouncy/rough ride.

also springs are meant to seat a certain way under the top hats and on the base of the strut, cutting the spring also means the fitment won't be what's it's supposed to be and you run the risk of the spring moving around on the strut and not fitting properly causing all kinds of clunks and noise, not to mention the potential damage to your struts because they are flexing in ways they weren't meant to.

Is this 100% guaranteed to happen? No, not necessarily, but whether or not it's worth the risk is up to you.

Just google cutting springs and see what you find.

 

http://craig.backfire.ca/pages/autos/cutting-springs

This may or may not answer ur question.
Also if u google cutting springs may get more info need.

 

Thank you Emperor for the facts, that's exactly what I was looking for. And thanks for the link dam, that helped as well

 

Again, it is not opinion, it is solid fact.

Even if rates stayed the same, you would be lowering without raising the spring rate. That alone is wrong. As you lower, rates need to go up significantly. That is why tein s techs and h techs blow for any sort of hard driving. They are too soft for the drop and you end up bouncing off the bump stops in hard corners. Cut stock springs will be a million times that bad.

Add into that the fact that the rate calculation includes the number of active coils, you can see how you can easily end up with flakey rates, plus the effects of heating the spring when you cut them.

Then you have the seating issues, etc.

 

x2^^ on the tech article.....opinions aside, it's pretty much been proven to be dangerous