wtf is with your spoiler

Woo, you've solved your image problem...

Just don't kill anybody bouncing all over the place :thumbsup:

It's sagging? Don't know why, i'm a little angry about it.

LOL THAT'S AWESOME

i like how you cut the springs while they were still COMPRESSED ROFL "bang" :p

yeah this is definitely one of those times you should be stating the obligatory "don't try this at home kids".

you will definitely be hitting the bump stops if you're not already riding on them (this is the difference between cut stock springs and lowering springs - the spring rate here isn't high enough to keep your suspension from going too far and hitting those bump stops). worse, the springs might fly out of the perches in the rear over bigger bumps / jumps, and it would be an epic disaster if this occured. but you knew that.

regardless, it looks great. you knew full well that it would ride like ass and that you would be bouncing all around so that's taken care of. just be careful out there is all - it might be pretty unpredictable when your suspension bottoms out and handling becomes erratic.

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:rolleyes:

Say byebye to your front lip :p

my dad did this to his 87 mustang gt....in 1992....or something like that...some things should just stay in the past....at least buy lowering springs

For my car, you can't get lowering springs unless you pay around $400 shipped for them, JUST for the springs themselves (mentioned before that I drive an 87 Toyota Cressida). For half that I get front coilovers, but then again, there's cutting and welding to be done that I lack the resources for.

I'd have to buy universal racing springs if I want springs on the cheap, and there's so many out there that can fit my car and there's dozens of combinations that people use that I can't decide what's best for me. And as I mentioned before, it's either chop-chop or finding stock Mk2 Supra springs that don't exactly offer a good amount of lowering. More often than not Cressidas in my model generation run cut springs, even if the ride is shitty, they know that. Hell, if I wanted short-stroke shocks, I'd have to run shocks off of OTHER cars, and those need a bit of adjustment to fit properly.

Yeah "you gotta pay to play", but there's a limit on how much one should pay, especially if you drive an older car.

Looks like it's going to the junkyard soon.

Unless you are actually upgrading the parts, whatever happened to leaving it stock?

Cut springs? Why bother.

do it right or dont do it at all

seriously, i understand its an OLDDD car, why not just leave it as it is


cutting springs ..............no comment

no lowering springs have their own spring-rate...cutting oem springs changes the spring-rate so that its not designed in conjunction with the car

No.
And that was me being in denial haha
Because. These cars are easy to work on, and can go respectively fast for pretty cheap. You can turbo them for cheap. They can handle really well with the right parts. Nobody suspects them. Everyone thinks their ugly, nobody thinks anything of them. Furthermore, it's a $1000 manual rwd car that will take near everything you throw at it.

are u sure?



if its true than......continue the project than i guess?
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Am I sure about what? And it's not a "project" persay. A project doesn't get DD'd to abby everyday from the tri cities.

OH snap I forgot to tell you the HOW and help you out that way.

Next time... lol.... compress the spring with a jack under the control arm then wrap a metal coat hanger around it to keep it compressed. That way you can undo the Bolt keeping everything together without there being to much tension. Then you undo the hanger and let the spring uncompress. Once you've cut the spring is should fit back into the Hats without needing to be compressed.

Berz out.

for your next mod you should remove the springs completely

Did that in a sprint.... now THATS a bumpy ride... hahaha

Berz out.

It's supposed to be that way - completes the ghetto look.

It looks retarded. Volvos aren't supposed to be lowered, that's just patently ridiculous.

I can see that... my last '87 Accord came to me with ghetto cut springs, ass-end was dragging all the time, dampers were bagged, handling was shit... then an upper rear ball joint snapped because of the extra strain from riding at its limit all the time, and I had to get the car towed home... woulda been a $200+ tow charge if my buddy didn't have BCAA Gold.

This thread is just dripping with failsauce.

Your next mod?
Jump to 3:00.

You'll lose a lot of weight on the car that way so you can ride FASTERRRRRRR
You'll thank me in the future :thumbsup:

I will NEVER understand why people are willing to 'go cheap' on their SUSPENSION!!

It's your car for crying out loud!! The single biggest purchase you'll make in your lifetime, aside from a house. Going cheap on suspension could cause an accident... which could KILL YOU or others.. and leave you financially F'D for your lifetime...

WHY?!?!? :cry:

Relax its a beaten up 25+ year old volvo and the driver is a youngun'. Not quite the biggest purchase of a lifetime.
Everyone needs experience. For better or worse.

Somedays, I really wish I hadn't sold my last car.

edit: and a car being the second biggest purchase of a lifetime? Really?

Serialnine makes coilover kits for Cressies.
$1500 is cheap. And they're Stance Coilovers.
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Knew about S9 for quite some time now, and I'm pretty stoked that the X7 coilovers came out, they're damn worth it if I had cash like that. But something costing that much for a first car is a bit excessive unless I intend to keep the car for a LONG time or wanting to track my car. As far as I know, Stance is ridiculously high-quality from what I hear. Megan Racing is doing R&D on X7 coilovers as well.

And that whole thing about "springs on the cheap". The springs in question are generic Eibach race springs, that are built shorter and stiffer than the stock springs, which in a way is a universal lowering spring that would work for my car.