cutting coil springs.
Racetracks
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Re: cutting coil springs.
they're different vehicles duh
The only thing they have in common is that they both have springs. Everything else is different, including the springs.
The only thing they have in common is that they both have springs. Everything else is different, including the springs.
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I Roll Fenders
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Re: cutting coil springs.
You can safely remove one coil. You then need to heat up the part that no longer has a dead spring and hammer it down so it has a dead spring. The shocks should be able to handle that as well. That is what I read in a suspension engineering book once anyway.
throwbAcura
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Re: cutting coil springs.
If you make a spring with a certain spring rate shorter, it doesn't change the spring rate. It just makes it shorter. If you have stock springs that are progressive rate, they'll be stiffer IF you cut the lower spring rate section off. This is the ONLY reason that cut springs could have a higher spring rate.
http://www.engineersedge.com/calcula...ring_k_pop.htm
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Re: cutting coil springs.
no... dont ever heat up springs... do you know what heat does to metal by chance?
slept alot in science class didnt you...
