can u cut 240sxstock suspensiontoo lower it ???

[Glides]

My Corolla has cut springs in the back. Cut them right and you have no problem. Cutting springs will not make your car bouncy. Bad shocks will make your car bouncy.

They don't make them in the height I needed so I clipped one coil off the ones I had, which were already lowering springs. Works great. Ride is the same, no weird gremlins threatening to throw me from the roadway and nobody ever knew the wiser, til now.

So if you aren't a total idiot, you can cut your springs and make them work for what you need.

[speedminded]

My Corolla has cut springs in the back. Cut them right and you have no problem. Cutting springs will not make your car bouncy. Bad shocks will make your car bouncy.

They don't make them in the height I needed so I clipped one coil off the ones I had, which were already lowering springs. Works great. Ride is the same, no weird gremlins threatening to throw me from the roadway and nobody ever knew the wiser, til now.

So if you aren't a total idiot, you can cut your springs and make them work for what you need.

Lowering springs are normally linear so nothing will change but the height when they are cut. Most OEM springs are progressive and will become either harder or softer depending which side of the spring is removed.

Like you said, it doesn't matter as long as the dampener can meet the needs of the spring rate and application.

[yudalicious]

Lowering springs are normally linear so nothing will change but the height when they are cut.

Anyway, if you cut off coils off a linear spring, it WILL change the spring rate. # of coils, wire diameter, and other factors affect spring rate. Compressing a linear spring (via coilovers) does not though.

[speedminded]

Anyway, if you cut off coils off a linear spring, it WILL change the spring rate. # of coils, wire diameter, and other factors affect spring rate. Compressing a linear spring (via coilovers) does not though.

LOL, how on earth can a linear spring rate change...its LINEAR! The "wire diameter" and spring rate is the exact same throughout the entire spring....you take 10% off and the other 90% is still the exact same, you take 20% off and the other 80% is still the exact same...

[yudalicious]

LOL, how on earth can a linear spring rate change...its LINEAR! The "wire diameter" and spring rate is the exact same throughout the entire spring....you take 10% off and the other 90% is still the exact same, you take 20% off and the other 80% is still the exact same...

If you cut off an "active" coil, it will change the spring rate. A simple search on google will tell you this. http://dirtbike.off-road.com/dirtbik....jsp?id=332656 first one that came up, you can search yourself for a more authoritative source if you like.

[speedminded]

If you cut off an "active" coil, it will change the spring rate. A simple search on google will tell you this. http://dirtbike.off-road.com/dirtbik....jsp?id=332656 first one that came up, you can search yourself for a more authoritative source if you like.

You win! I'm guilty of erroneously using Spring Rate as Spring Load. Once you understand that then it all makes sense...

Spring Rate = 11,250,000 times the wire diameter to the 4th power divided by 8 times the active number of turns times the mean diameter cubed.