After 30 hours with my new Mk1. And a spring cutting question.

[GGehrke <ggehrke@gmail.com>]

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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