Just wondering where you heard that?i would get drop springs, once you start cutting stock springs especially old ones they don't hold the same amount of weight. your suspension will be relatively weaker.
I'm replacing the upper A arms on my 65 and want to lower the front end 1 or 2 inches while they are out. Can somebody give me an idea how much to cut?
Thanks
Just wondering where you heard that?
I hear lots of things on here as well, but you need to be more careful about what you repeat. I've dropped cars for over 30 years, so I'm speaking from my experience, not someone else's theory, and I can tell you flat out, there isn't even a grain of truth in it. Spring rates will increase if you lop off a coil, and that's because there are a couple of things that determine spring rate, one is the diameter of the wire used to make the spring. Larger wire equals a stiffer spring, just like sway bars. The other thing that makes a spring softer or stiffer is the number of coils. More coils means a softer spring, just as less coils means a stiffer spring. However, having said that, the difference is barely noticeable from the seat of the pants, in my experience (there's that word again) cutting one coil off an early Mustang spring takes it from waaay too soft, to merely too soft.on here multiple times whenever someone asked if they should cut their springs or not.
Spring rates will increase if you lop off a coil, and that's because there are a couple of things that determine spring rate, one is the diameter of the wire used to make the spring. Larger wire equals a stiffer spring, just like sway bars. The other thing that makes a spring softer or stiffer is the number of coils. More coils means a softer spring, just as less coils means a stiffer spring. However, having said that, the difference is barely noticeable from the seat of the pants, in my experience (there's that word again) cutting one coil off an early Mustang spring takes it from waaay too soft, to merely too soft.
As for making the suspension weaker, how could it? Stiffer spring would make it better for heavier loads if anything, wouldn't it? Like I said before, advice on any internet forum can be a crapshoot, so be careful what you believe and even more careful about what you repeat as fact.
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