lowering help

KLRtuner

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take each spring out 1 at a time, set yourself up a jig and put your spring in the vice. Apply ample amounts of heat via oxy/acetalyne torch.

As you heat the spring turn the vice in to compress the spring. then let it cool for 3 minutes, and drop it into a bucket of water. This keeps the spring from returning to its original shap.

In the end you have a lowerd car. no money spend on springs, and you didnt even have to cut them.
 

YelloEye

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I'll let the guys that do this kinda stuff chime in, but for the general populace that's not a viable or safe option.
 

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Patty, I think your talking about the bump stops. When you get lower springs your supposed to trim them. somewhere between 1.5-4 cm
 

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Get some Eibachs drop the car and be done with it.
Please don't cut your springs, its tacky unless its done with extreme experience and scrutiny which 90% of the people who mod cars don't have. Otherwise it just makes an econobox feel more like one.
 

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