im about to install my eibachs soon i was wondering if i should cut a coil on front and 1 coil in back so it will look a little better then its original eibach drop i think wont be enough. or what do you guys recomend.

 

i cut a coil off maxspeeds.. use a grinder, its easier. i got no problems except for squeeky strut bearings in front i need to replace..u will have like a 2 finger gap after the cut as apposed to a 3-4.

if your not a fan of cutting.just get sprints.

 

I just cut my sprints

almost sitting right on the tire now, pix this weekend

 

I want to cut my sprints in the rear. How many coils do you guys recommend?

no flames please.

 

i think 1 coil will even up the height..ive heard of people cutting 2 but not many. do 1 first..u can always cut more but u can put any back one..if not enough then do 2.

 

hows the ride quality after i cut my eibachs a coil? how did you guy feel the road a lil bit more bumpier or the same as b4.

 

i was thinking about cutting my eibachs also , any 1 have pics of this done with kyb agx?

 

Buy different springs BEFORE you install them. Your ride and handling will go to crap when you cut, and this is why:
http://drewm.dyndns.org/~drew/maxfaq...CuttingSprings

 

i cut my maxspeeds. no problems here. i can feel more of the road, suspension got stiffer, i dont think you will bottom out too much with cut springs because they are progressive.. now that the spring is shorter, the spring rate is higher than it was becuase it was cut so that compensates at least a lil for the less travel you have. this is why u feel bumps more and the ride is stiffer. it is not however unbearably stiff. only time i ever got annoyed at the stiffness is going thru downtown street of LA. wheres there are pot holes galore. i live in the suburds, roads are pretty well paved most of the time so in my case, i haveno problems. i got use to the additional road feel after about 2 days od driving. also i dont bounce around like a civic with cut springs and blown shocks.. agx on 3/7 its good.

if you live clsoe to messed up roads dont cut them.

 

Technically if you cut off the dead part on the top of the spring that are completely compressed at resting position, your spring rate will not change at all, only the height. That part of the spring was already compressed so much the coils were touching.

Springs don't magically change their rate when you cut them. The stiffness you're feeling is your car hitting the bumpstops. Go down and measure how much shock travel you have left before the bumpstops and you'll notice that's its not much at all, probably a half inch or so.

Also, you will bottom out MORE with progressive springs due to the stiffer section of the spring moving from near your bumpstop to beyond your bumpstop. Now all you have to ride on is the initial soft section. Fixed rate springs take cuts better. That's why ALL coilover systems have fixed rate springs.

 

the dead part of spring theory is jsut for the rears though. front coils arnt clsoe to touching so you do get a stiffer rate as you cut them..ie. progressive. plus on fronts your spose to cut the top which is the softer part of that spring. coils on top are slightly farther apart. but what you said makes sense for the rears.. thats why i can push the rear down by hand about 1/4 of an inch before its too stiff to push.. fronts i cant push them down at all.

 

ok i think im going end up cutting them from what i see it seems like one coil should not be that bad. would i need those eibach camber bolts.

 

u should end up as low or a lil lower than sprints... many sprint peeps dont use camber bolts and are happy..some do..its your call.. they are like roughly 30 bux so its not much of an investestment to save you an extra couple months of tire tread.

if you dont get it, when your reassembling the whole sprint/strut assembly pull it whole thing out towards you(away from the block) and have someone rebolt it for you like that.. technically its spose to give you back about a degree of positive camber. duno if it works, but its worth a shot.

 

OK thanks everyone for your help go do it this weekend, now does anyone know where i can get some gr2s for cheap so i can finally have my suspension finished.

 

if your gonna sue them with cut eibachs i dont recomend. eibachs are pretty stiff to begin and with a cut, the gr2's may blow in like 20-25k.. id recommend agx, illum, or koni yellow.. agx are teh cheapest.. only bad stuff i have ever heard bout agx is a slightly stiff ride, and that they get softer in hot weather. its rare when someoen posts a thread titled "i blew my agx"

 

just a question, has anyone cut the sprints in the front? ride?

 

No reason to, after a while your car will drop slightly more than they specified.