How well does heating springs work?
06-22-2002, 10:33 PM
#1
How well does heating springs work?
Has anyone heated up there springs to lower the car. I have done many a search...and really want to lower the car...but even more so dont want to loose any ride comfort. Outside of an havent found much info on.
06-23-2002, 01:18 AM
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Re: How well does heating springs work?
Originally posted by MaxWolf
Has anyone heated up there springs to lower the car. I have done many a search...and really want to lower the car...but even more so dont want to loose any ride comfort. Outside of an havent found much info on.
Has anyone heated up there springs to lower the car. I have done many a search...and really want to lower the car...but even more so dont want to loose any ride comfort. Outside of an havent found much info on.
06-23-2002, 01:20 AM
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Re: Re: How well does heating springs work?
Originally posted by Nismo
its about as bad as those old cutlass supremes with little lowrider wheels you see bouncing around town. Dont do it
its about as bad as those old cutlass supremes with little lowrider wheels you see bouncing around town. Dont do it
06-23-2002, 06:04 AM
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on stock springs it is not a good idea to cut them AT ALL... they wil be bouncing and bad... it thorws the rate off... now on aftermarket springs a coil orso to even the drop is cool... most use a progrseeive spring rate and the top and bottom coils are dead coils anyway... but not on stock springs!
just my opinion anyway.
just my opinion anyway.
06-23-2002, 09:01 AM
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Re: How well does heating springs work?
Originally posted by MaxWolf
Has anyone heated up there springs to lower the car. I have done many a search...and really want to lower the car...but even more so dont want to loose any ride comfort. Outside of an havent found much info on.
Has anyone heated up there springs to lower the car. I have done many a search...and really want to lower the car...but even more so dont want to loose any ride comfort. Outside of an havent found much info on.
I remember hearing a structural engineer make a similar point about reinforcing an overhead alumimum sign support structure. As we were talking about the idea of reinforcing the corners of the structure to be able to bear additional loading, the engineer said there may be critical metal fatiguing from the welding process to the point where the structure becomes unsound/unsafe.
Just my $0.02.
06-23-2002, 10:13 AM
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Re: How well does heating springs work?
Originally posted by MaxWolf
Has anyone heated up there springs to lower the car. I have done many a search...and really want to lower the car...but even more so dont want to loose any ride comfort. Outside of an havent found much info on.
Has anyone heated up there springs to lower the car. I have done many a search...and really want to lower the car...but even more so dont want to loose any ride comfort. Outside of an havent found much info on.
06-23-2002, 02:04 PM
#7
i have seen several springs break into pieces after they have been driven on after heating them. if you have ever seen a heated spring compared to a stock or lowering spring i dont know how they ALL dont snap.
06-23-2002, 03:33 PM
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Get a nice coil-over system which lowers the car a bit, cutting/heating springs is a ghetto-rig that could be potentially dangerous. If you don't have the money for even a spring set, save up and buy it. If you're gonna do it, DO IT RIGHT.
JMHO..
JMHO..
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