1986 Jamaica Yellow 1.2L Project

[Nick J]

Lol at the pikey lowering...... I'd lose the daft badges Scott as I feel they spoil it and look bloody awful!

Nick.

[Southie]

What's the disadvantage of chopping springs if done right, bad spring travel maybe?... Just curious.

[John]

I might have an old mudflap lying around somewhere Scott, will have a look.

[MK999]

You can't coil the ends on top of each other to form a decent flat support, it'll look more like a corkscrew. Also makes the spring rate higher to an unknown amount, but usually less than required since it's normally done on standard springs down to half their height or something silly, and generally it's done with an angle grinder which will harden the metal around the cut, although that's not really an issue because the rest of it is still softer, doesn't get hot enough to harden through it's length.

Given Scott has only taken 5 mm off the top and flattened it off I'm guessing it's not that bad though. He's only a little bit of a pikey

[Southie]

Mk you've not answered my question though. I can't see a problem with that if he's got decent poundage springs.

[MK999]

The spring doesn't sit flat when you chop them generally, there's nothing really wrong with what Scotts done as I said, but I've given you all the reasons it's generally not a good idea.

[Southie]

Have you tested his modification on a Nova though?

I always found the backend just follows the front, if safe then I was happy. I ran chopped springs for 3 years without a problem... FK ones if anyone needs to know... Not massively chopped so that they scrub on the inner arches btw

[scott.parker]

at you pair, basically if you look at bottom of the coil I've gone straight across from the pig tail end and chopped it off there so as not to remove to much, then took about 4-5mm off both top/bottom by flattening them off with the flap wheel, just a very desperate attempt at trying to lower it with no extra cost..

[Southie]

Scott, he works for NASA

[MK999]

well the risk with chopped springs is they don't sit in the seats, so there's a chance they come out, assuming yours were coilovers? so you probably could have wound the spring off the shock if you tried. Anyway, like I said, I'm guessing Scotts sit better than standard tbh as they never seem to bother winding aftermarket springs flat