disrupt wrote:this thread is amusing.As for cutting springs. Most modern springs are progressive. This means that as the spring is compressed it take more force to compress it. Example the first inch might take 100 lbs but the second inch might take 150 more lbs.
Now all your springs are not all the same and maybe they don't have enough pre load in them to stay in the correct location in the strut.
Even worst is heating springs to lower them. Consider this. The manufacturer bought some metal with reasonable properties that were achieved through controlled heating and controlled cooling and working or forming yielding a uniform metal grain size and shape. Then they cold or hot worked the metal into a spring shape and sold it to you to provide a specific spring rate maybe even a nice progressive spring rate.
Now you heat it in a garage with a torch to an unknown temperature and allow it to cool unevenly due to some parts of the spring touching other metal and some not and at an uncontrolled rate. You just ruined all the effort that has been put it in to making those springs. The effort that you paid for.
Sorry to pee on your parade, but your little speech has fallen on deaf ears. The majority of us are perfectly aware how stupid of an idea it is to cut/heat springs to lower them. We know full well what can happen, and its a bad idea on way too many levels.
The problem is, the people who are cutting/heating the springs in the first place are the same people who will refuse to listen to logic on a repeated basis. They absolutely do not care as long as their car is slammed.
Ive always said that the worst tuners are those with more money than sense, but sometimes you come across the unlucky fool with neither. These are the kids that scare me.
