lowering

[yurple at hotmail.com (Mark Malowicki)]

  By the way, from a mathematical perspective, spring rate is inversely 
proportional to the number of coils, so it's easy to figure out how much 
removing a coil will increase your spring rate.

New rate = Old rate * ( original # coils / new # coils )

  So say your front springs have 5 complete, active coils (don't count that 
flat coil at the bottom or top).   Removing a complete active coil means 5 
/4, or 5 original / 4 after chopping = 1.25, or a 25% increase in spring 
rate.

  So I can't answer your question "would it be fine?", but I can say that a 
25% increase in spring rate sounds like a lot....  Would chopping half a 
coil get you enough lowering?

  And of course, let me know if the math or theory is wrong (which I'm sure 
everyone will).

                                         - Mark M

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