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Originally Posted by jlenko
If you're cheap enough to hack-job the suspension of a car... stay the fuck away from me when you drive that accident-waiting-to-happen. I kinda like living.
Oh.. and a cut stock spring (if you're lucky enough to have progressive rate springs...) are NOT going to have the same spring rates as an aftermarket spring. Even worse if you have linear rate springs stock (like Crapaliers do). And good luck on getting all your spring rates close to each other...
Fuck, I hate people who are stupid enough to go cheap on important stuff... like suspension.. brakes.. etc.
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They're not progressive rate springs, I know I am a ruhtard but. And you know what, I actually applaud the fact that you used a real world example and didn't just use a paper racer excuse. I am not going to cut out 4 coils, probably 3 coils. 2.5 coils off the stock spring brings to around the same height as our aftermarket lowering springs (which people have run forever on stock struts, or unshortened shocks/struts), so I figure another .5 coil really isn't going to destroy the shock outright. Plus, I'll be getting billy hd's hopefully in the summer so I can get a little bit of dampening back.
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Originally Posted by ericthehalfbee
Cutting springs is illegal according to the MVA. It is one of the primary criteria for an automatic fail of an inspection regarding suspension condition/modifications.
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The car's been a registered Canada car all it's life... And it takes all of 30 mins to swap in stock springs if for whatever reason I get a VI
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Originally Posted by lowside67
What is the magical mystery car with NO aftermarket suspension options that you drive that necessitates this retarded course of action? You talk about wanting to improve your autocross performance, this is absolutely the opposite - it is much better to have a higher ride height then to bottom out."
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It's a volvo. There's a handful of companies that make lowering springs for my car, average price is 250usd, which I don't have. And I never said I wanted to improve my autox times; I don't even fucking race the thing. I was using it has an example for what other people have reported I believe. And my car is at tractor height, it would take alot of lowering to get the thing to bottom out on corners, the first that would scrape is the front spoiler (which race cars do all the time), IF for some reason I was able to get the rear underbody of the car to scrape under braking, well... I'd be fucking impressed.