Haha funny post.

 

First off your ride will really suffer and then the
springs will sag......you'll have created as real POS!
Do it right, buy springs! Enough flame...............?

 

Dont do it, buy springs, you have a G dont go cheap youll regret it later down the road.

 

Buy some used 350z springs and drop your car a 1".

 

Trying to answer this seriously. Cutting your spring will absolutely, positively, make the way your car handles far worse. You are decreasing the length of your suspension's travel, without adjusting the dampening/rate according. If you want "close to stock", get the OEM sport suspension springs or 350Z springs (or get adjustable coil overs and adjust them to be close to stock level). You drive a car that likely costs $30,000+, why ruin the way it handles just to save a few hundred bucks?

 

Care to explain how this is not the same as just replacing your oem springs with an aftermarket lowering spring without changing anything else.

 

After cutting the oem springs you would not be able to fit it back securely into it's original place anyways. If you look at the oem springs, you will notice that the final coils at either end flatten out to fit into the spring seats. Cut those off and it won't fit properly. And why bring back a thread that's been dead for 2 months?

 

^Thanks to nm3th for reviving this thead. I needed a laugh!

 

I brought back the thread because I'm trying to understand why cutting a set of linear springs is more detrimental than replacing with an aftermarket linear spring that is shorter and have a lower spring rate. Plus, I didn't want to start a new thread.

I don't see how cutting an oem spring with a higher spring rate 1" lower is worse than an aftermarket spring that is 1" lower but with a lower spring rate. In both cases, the dampener has 1" less travel, but wouldn't a higher spring rate be better for the shock absorber?

Ignoring the spring seats issue, can someone give a technical explanation as to why the above situation is bad?

 

I don't see what's so funny...

 

^I wasn't laughing at you. I was laughing at the whole "cutting springs" idea.
Anyway, I don't have a technical answer to your question. But have you seen cars with cut springs on the freeway? They bounce like a **** because the modded springs ruined the shocks.

 

I understand that any decrease in travel for the shocks will blow them faster if they're not properly valved for them.

But why is cutting worse than an aftermarket spring that is shorter, but have a lower spring rate? What would make more sense is to make the aftermarket lowering spring stiffer.

 

I am.

 

^^^that was a helpful explanation...

 

hahahahaah dude. cut your springs! its mad cool yo! more bounce to the ounce on the freeway is dope!