re. 4KQ spring chop? - DONT!

[Ben Swann]

Phil, 

Don't do this!  1) you'll hate the car and 2) it is dangerous 3) you will bring the value of the car down to worthless.

If you can't afford to get the correct springs, don't lower the car, as you won't really be able to do all of the other things associated with lowering anyway: proper wheels and tires, and struts.  Keep in mind, that the 4kq already had a fairly beefy suspension and a plus one tire setup anyway, compared to others of the day.  \

You don't need to rice these cars up for them to be cool.

Ben

[Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:44:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Phil Mather <specracerx at yahoo.com>
Subject: 4KQ spring chop?

I've heard of it being done before, but wanted to confirm.  Can you cut a coil off of the front springs on a 4kq?  The front of my car rides fairly high and I'm too cheap to buy lowering springs.  I'm putting new strut mounts in this weekend though and while everything was out I thought I could cut the springs (with a cutting wheel, not a tourch).  How likely is it that the strut would bottom out (bump stops are still good, PO replaced them)?  Thanks!
 
Phil]