opinions on heating springs
 

I want to lower my bmw about 1-1/2 in. I have always been against cutting and heating springs to lower a car but I also always drove honda's so I was worried about performance. I know the best way to lower it would be to buy springs but I'm feeling lazy and just want to put a torch to them. Have you ever done this? What were the resaults?

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I hope your car catches on fire :6

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this is hmt

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i would do it if i was you, but you should pour gas on the springs to help lubricate the shrinking of the metal.

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no, I'll do that to cool it down

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doesnt mean you can half ass on something as simple as buying lowering springs :-\

wait.. let me rephrase..

doesnt mean you can half ass on ANYTHING.

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im guessing by the responses it would be a bad/dumb idea overall

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your right it is HomeMadeTurbo.com not Homemadeheatupyourspringstodropyourcar.com

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if you acually think about this for a minute you will come to the right answer :3

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i did it on a old junker, it sat like I had hydros

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cut them instead of heating them

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i agree, that way you can measure ---- out and not catch fire

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since he said he`s lazy i don`t see how he woudl take it out, hack saw them and put it all back together.


---- it it`s ur car just do what you want. but i wouldn`t do it :l :X

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the results were mexicans cars lit a fire in the road and countless laughs about homos like you bouncing through the intersections, get a rope and some real springs.

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you will be sorry if you heat your springs. it takes the spring out of them. the spring in a piece of steel comes from the way it is heat treated

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your gonna hit a bump and bounce for the next 100 feet down the road.

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dude, someone's selling lowering springs in for sale for $30.

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About 7 years ago in high school we did this on a guys '89 accord. We heated up the springs, had a couple guyns sit on that corner of the car for a bit, then we sprayed water on the springs to cool them down.

Results, dropped his car somewhere between 1.5-2 inches. Also made his wheels look like / \

I wouldn't recommend doing this. You can't guarantee you'll get each wheel the same height, and your camber is all fux0red after you do it.

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Any cut/heated spring car rides horrible. I HATE it. I got headaches riding in freinds' cars, but hey, "It doesn't look bad and was cheap." If that's you and you can stand the bumps then by all means do it. Me? It's a daily driver and I spent $155 on Eibachs. Whatever you want.


JP

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we had an old school car guy as our substitute for autoshop for the last week, and we talked about this. he was asking me about my coilovers (car was on the lift) and he told me about how him and his friends used to torch their springs.. and how it was a bad idea. he said it was dam near impossible to get the car level- or at least even fronts/rears

conclusion: cut em up

i've already decided on my next car im cuttin the springs, giving it the "coman slam" as we call it in west seattle- named after a nignog who's mastered cutting honda springs lol

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cons: uneven tread wear, shitty ride, shitty handling
pros: ?

your probably gonna get sick of it and wind up buying springs anyways.

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We cut & torched the springs ona friends 82 RX7, and the results were good.

We only took off one coil, then torched & bent them so the last coil would be flat (to sit in the perch). The result was actually good. The ride is stiffer (shortening coil springs increases their stiffness), but not excessive, and the ride is level. Bad dampnerrs causes bouncyness, not the springs. Any spring with a bad dampener will be bouncy.

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Ok, I think I'll buy springs then. :P

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good idea. eGay springs can be VERY cheap

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I cut springs when I was in high school and a complete tool

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Well i'd just get some cheap-ass ebay coilovers before cutting...they are SO cheap and sometimes last a while before breaking. My friends been slammed on some "big dollar" $120 dropzones for about 3 yrs and other than blown-ass shocks, they work just fine. I have a set to and after a year they are alright, amazingly the spring didnt sag at all (i compared them to a new set), which is even what most decent springs do after a while.

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wait, did no one notice this part?

go buy some springs, rich bitch :y

my store manager (brings in a good +120K/yr) has a 325i that he auto crosses, lowered, sparco seats, lightweight wheels, nice lil chrome muffler. it looked ------- sick on the stock wheels, they actually got a lil bit of camber goin!

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racing around cones in a parking lot ftl.

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cutting springs is not that bad of a thing. as long as you dont cut them more than an inch or an inch and a half.

the springs on da camarer are cut in the front... it looks fine :)

https://www.homemadeturbo.com/jbliss/camaro/camaro.JPG

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cutting springs aint that bad
and camber is the result of lowering your car, not because u torched or cut your springs
ull get camber no matter which way you chose to lower the car

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cutting springs is about as beaner as it gets, i see this all the time where i live, cars bouncing and the rear tires squatin like a fat bitch is in the trunk, just gay if you ask me, y no get it as high as you can off the ground like 4ft or so, heat them til they glow red then attatch a cable from the jack to your buddies truck, while they r still glowing red rip that fuckn jack out from underneither and wala your shits lowered, be sure to video this adventure as well so we can all laugh reading about this in the paper how a few kids died while tryn to rice out his bmw,, germaaaaan engeneering in da housse :-*

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hahah that guy on the VW comercials haha "we jus dropt it like its hott" yeeaaa. lmfao

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bad idea on a beamer but on a honda its okay ;D

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I would never do it myself, I'd take it to professionals and have them do it :8 :P no really he was :8 Anyways, My first honda, 91 hatch, I wanted to lower it, but didn't have the dough for real suspension, I wanted to cut them, but my buddy at the time told me to just get it heated. So we drove down to huntigton park, and went to see the professional who happens to work at a muffler shop :P. Paid him 20 bucks and my car was dropped. No need for people sitting in it, he put it on the lift and went to work. Honestly, he did it nice and it did come out even. He heated them up til there were only 2 good coils left :D so I settled for it. The look was great, the ride was okay as long as you didn't hit a serious dip. I probably wouldn't do it again, only because cheap coilovers are cheap and I want better things nowadays.

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i dont understand this thread but ???

don't burn the beanner just cut him.