* I honestly don't know what super long term effects chopping springs will have - I don't know if you will mess up your car - but this is just information... don't do anything to your ride you can't afford to pay and fix if something goes wrong 
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Anyways... Hey guys - so we have such a hot-headed debate on TN about spring cutting... Is it so bad??? What is it going to do to my car??? How much lower will it make me??? Does cutting springs mean I don't like girls anymore>>>
While I can't answer all of these questions - I decided to cut up some springs for the camry... I sold my coilovers and went back to springs/struts - I have been riding on ksport springs to test them out and the drop in the back is pretty sick, but the overall stance is about the most uneven i have ever seen (tuck rear/3 finger front)
I got a great deal on some sprint springs - and we had an extra set of 2 from Alex lying around the shop - so I figured time to expirement - and time to cut some shit up
Here are some pics of the front spring springs - they are in left to right order from stock height - 1/2 coil chopped - full coil chopped... (note I cut off the bottom of the springs - where they sit on the strut)
I did that so you could see how different the heights of the springs look when you cut them up...
Now I thought cutting a full coil off was REALLY too much Reason being when i set the spring back on the perch of the strut... it really wanted to fall off the bottom side of the strut when i put pressure on it... this worried me - so i stuck with the springs where I cut 1/2 a coil off... NOTE - I have talked to people that say they have chopped off a full coil and been fine - I am just saying personally - I did not feel real good about it...
i am not going to cut the rears - since the car is low ass back there anyways
Also - when I chopped the springs - I tried to grind down the ends such that they lined up with the perches like the stock springs did... I think this will help them sit better - if not it added some piece of mind for me
Anyways - give me a few days/weeks to let them settle - and then i will get my allignment done (since i f'd up the car in that little wreck anyways) and I will update you all on the looks... Because of this - I don't really have any full car pics at the moment - I am pretty happy with the little extra drop in height though - maybe it will ride like shit though when i finally get the car moving, but until then I don't know...
so yeah - my car still isn't driving haha...
After I had Carl help me fix all the suspension stuff from the curb incident -
MY RADIATOR BLEW UP! not more than 5 min. after I had the whole car put together... I am not sure why - probably old age and what not - but a hairline crack in the top plastic of the radiator did it in... so my car sits like this ATM
That is why I have had all this time to play around with suspension - plus working at speed-source I get to have acess to the car a bunch...
But have no fear - new radiator time is here
I bought an aluminum visteon racing radiator for a 2G eclipse - we are making custom tabs to mount it on the car - and then welding a fill neck on the top so I can put radiator fluid in it!!! Should be pretty nice when all done
i also decided to mount up all of my gauges so I could see them nicely - here is a sneaker pic on that
Anyways so that is that - hopefully the car will be driving soon - while it is awesome to wacth the car collect dust - I would rather fly through the dust on the streets
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