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RE: After 30 hours with my new Mk1. And a spring cutting question.
I'd take the struts out to cut. I've seen hack jobs go terribly wrong.
It'll take you all of 2 mins to pull of and disasseble the strut.
You can use a circular saw with a metal cutting blade.
Good cheap and effective for a short time.
-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Roger concha
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:59 AM
To: Robert Piwonka
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: After 30 hours with my new Mk1. And a spring cutting
question.
cut springs will give you that nice ricer bounce
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:52:58 -0600, Robert Piwonka <t.piwonka@ttu.edu>
wrote:
a cutting wheel would probably be the easiest way to cut it, yes you
can do it all without removing the struts.
-Robert
GGehrke wrote:
> Phew! Just returned home from one ridiculous road trip. Flew from
> Baltimore to Las Vegas, bought a car, fixed it on the street in
> vegas, and drove it home to Kentucky in 2-1/2 days. It's an awesome
> car and I had a great time. Pictures of the car and the trip, a
> full account of the trip, etc will be forthcoming but I'm pretty
> pooped right now. I think the trip was like 2500 miles.
>
> One problem the car has now though -- it rides higher than today's
> SUVs. I put some really nice 15" Borbet wheels on it and it just
> looks ridiculous. At some point I'm going to splurge and put on
> nice coilovers, but not just yet, so I think I'm going to cut a
> little bit off my springs, front especially (front has about 2" more
> wheel gap than back for some reason) Has anyone done this before?
> Insight and Advice? The shocks are working really well for the
> suspension (at least in giving me a comfortable ride over the last 3
> days -- though I haven't yet put the car through rigorous paces to
> test its handling) which I don't want to completely destroy, so how
> safe is the process with regards to not destroying my shocks? I
> think they've been replaced at some point in the cars life with new
> boge shocks, stock specs. I'm thinking it's going to be quite
> possible to cut the springs on the car.. just jack it up, put on
> some spring compressors and snip a bit off the top. Am I retarded
> in thinking I can do it without even removing the strut from the
> car? What should I use to cut it? I know a torch is a bad idea, but
> what? hacksaw? sawzall? cheese grater? i dunno....
>
> Anyways, time for bed for me. Looking to cut the springs tomorrow
> though, so let me know if you anyone knows anything about that.
> Thanks.
>
> -Grant-
>
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