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Old 4th July 2008, 09:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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chopping springs
I want to lower the front of my 19 just a little bit.

Tried some lowering springs but they were too low, looked shite IMO.

So I want to lop 1/4 of a coil off each spring, however much is needed to drop it by just 10-15mm or so.

OK to just get the grinder out?
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Old 4th July 2008, 09:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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nope, not alright, not for a 1/4 of a turn, you need to take off a full coil at a time so that the ends of the springs still sit in their intended place on the shocks.
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No. get the right spring's. Looked hard and You will find what your after. Germany might be a place to start. That's where we got the 15mm lowering spring for the black coupe from. before it was like 70mm. And drove like as ass on road.
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Old 5th July 2008, 12:39 AM   #4 (permalink)
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nope, not alright, not for a 1/4 of a turn, you need to take off a full coil at a time so that the ends of the springs still sit in their intended place on the shocks.
I'm sure that's not an issue, the springs are totally parallel and the top spring cups rotate to whatever position the coil ends at. A whole coil will drop it more than the -35mm springs I tried!
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OK, then get another set of springs, some old ones from a scrappie or similar and test on those first.
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OK, then get another set of springs, some old ones from a scrappie or similar and test on those first.
Just what I was about to say..
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cutting springs is gash, got to be done right though, and its true, the spring has got to sit in a certain place, did it on a megane 2 days before the fcs
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Old 10th July 2008, 09:37 AM   #9 (permalink)
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im lead 2 believe if u get springs for a 1.4 engine or summat small they are made to take less weight so ur f7p engine will drop them slightly lower than if they where on the 1.4 and than ur 1.8 springs... count the number of coils on both springs, could be wrong though check further! i no it works like that with the pug 106 / 205 n stuff
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the 1.4 springs etc are tapeed only the 16V has parrallel springs.

However the clios have stright ones.

Using softer springs also takes the handling away
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