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Shraka Forums Junkie Location: Melbourne Registered: November 2003	Re: cutting springs Fri, 02 September 2005 15:16 Seriously PMP020, you have to have something wrong with you. Same to the rest of you who think cut springs "aren't that bad". Your day driver still needs to be able to stop, turn, and respond to throttle properly. Cutting your springs makes your car horribly dangerous. If you need to swerve to miss a pedestrian or something, the car is likely to react unpredictably and spin out/under steer, possibly killing the pedestrian and yourself (although you probably deserve it - the pedestrians, other motorists and owners of various inanimate objects you might hit, don't). jesseT18 what you are saying is wrong, potentially dangerously so. Less coils = LESS SPRING RATE = SOFTER RIDE The height of your springs has nothing to do with how strong the spring rate is. PEOPLE DO NOT LOWER THEIR CARS TO HAVE STIFFER SUSPENION. They lower their car to bring the center of gravity down. This helps reduce lift around corners. However, if your springs are soggy it's not gonna help at all. (except to break your OTHER suspension components making your car even LESS safe). As a side note, lowering your springs to far in any way without putting shorter stroke shocks in is also dangerous. Lowering your car makes the shock absorbers work ALL THE TIME. The more you lower, the worse this effect is. This constant pressure wears them out quickly, causing them to work incorrectly adding more danger to your situation. Lowering your car to far can also cause the maximum camber angle to be incorrect. This means no matter who you take it to, they wont be able to align your suspension properly. This will cause your tyres to not work properly on the road, and also wear them out unevenly. Cut springs is like rice, taken to it's ultimate, bone chilling, deadly conclusion. I knew there was a reason I hated 'all show, no go' machines. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	cutting springs	corona crew	Fri, 02 September 2005 07:54
	Re: cutting springs	dizzy	Fri, 02 September 2005 08:14
	Re: cutting springs	Mookie	Fri, 02 September 2005 08:15
	Re: cutting springs	draven	Fri, 02 September 2005 08:21
	Re: cutting springs	draven	Fri, 02 September 2005 08:23
	Re: cutting springs	jesseT18	Fri, 02 September 2005 09:34
	Re: cutting springs	ed_ma61	Fri, 02 September 2005 12:36
	Re: cutting springs	Rob.C	Fri, 02 September 2005 09:15
	Re: cutting springs	Aust162	Fri, 02 September 2005 09:18
	Re: cutting springs	Corona RT142	Fri, 02 September 2005 09:45
	Re: cutting springs	KOPDIS	Fri, 02 September 2005 10:10
	Re: cutting springs	dimmy77_03	Fri, 02 September 2005 10:15
	Re: cutting springs	hokey	Fri, 02 September 2005 10:54
	Re: cutting springs	EvilJack	Fri, 02 September 2005 11:04
	Re: cutting springs	ke382TG	Fri, 02 September 2005 11:12
	Re: cutting springs	EvilJack	Fri, 02 September 2005 11:13
	Re: cutting springs	PMP020	Fri, 02 September 2005 13:15
	Re: cutting springs	ed_ma61	Fri, 02 September 2005 13:18
	Re: cutting springs	Yian	Fri, 02 September 2005 13:22
	Re: cutting springs	ed_ma61	Fri, 02 September 2005 13:23
	Re: cutting springs	PMP020	Fri, 02 September 2005 13:27
	Re: cutting springs	ed_ma61	Fri, 02 September 2005 13:46
	Re: cutting springs	dimmy77_03	Fri, 02 September 2005 13:44
	Re: cutting springs	Shraka	Fri, 02 September 2005 15:16
	Re: cutting springs	corona crew	Fri, 02 September 2005 15:45
	Re: cutting springs	ke20_rolla	Fri, 02 September 2005 16:02
	Re: cutting springs	terra	Fri, 02 September 2005 16:59
	Re: cutting springs	draven	Sat, 03 September 2005 00:31
	Re: cutting springs	79rollaboy	Sat, 03 September 2005 01:37
	Re: cutting springs	Mookie	Sat, 03 September 2005 03:16
	Re: cutting springs	draven	Sat, 03 September 2005 04:13
	Re: cutting springs	smashed_wombat	Sat, 03 September 2005 06:11
	Re: cutting springs	feral4mr2	Sat, 03 September 2005 07:27
	Re: cutting springs	havabeer	Sat, 03 September 2005 06:15
	Re: cutting springs	draven	Sat, 03 September 2005 07:04
	Re: cutting springs	st184 sillycar	Sat, 03 September 2005 07:41
	Re: cutting springs	corona crew	Sat, 03 September 2005 07:51
	Re: cutting springs	st184 sillycar	Sat, 03 September 2005 08:18
	Re: cutting springs	Benjamin	Sat, 03 September 2005 08:36
	Re: cutting springs	corona crew	Sat, 03 September 2005 09:55
	Re: cutting springs	THE WITZL	Sat, 03 September 2005 12:24

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