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Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:53 pm

Is there any cheap ghetto way to lower a super front end?

Sun Feb 15, 2004 12:37 am

cut the springs

or if your really lazy just use cheap bolt on spring compressors to compress the springs a little and leave em on your car. My sis's super came like that and it rides fine, i would go with cut spring for cheap lowering though.

Sun Feb 15, 2004 7:34 pm

Just cut the spring how much you want it to drop? I guess just make sure each side is the same. So is this a hard safty issue?

Sun Feb 15, 2004 9:07 pm

naw its not a safety issue if you dont go to extreme.

I would think the car would lower in proportion to height of the spring you cut off.

I dunno, never done it. If you wanna do it, do it right

Sun Feb 15, 2004 9:11 pm

talking about getting lowered struts, well this is ghetto

Sun Feb 15, 2004 10:40 pm

spring compressors, will I need two on each side? :?

Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:16 am

-Rusted_Radio- wrote: spring compressors, will I need two on each side? :?
yep

Mon Feb 16, 2004 8:04 am

Spring compressers? I what a goofy idea. I wouldn't do anything to the springs. Just put a couple of bags of cement in the front (or if you really want to be "Ghetto" a couple of "ho's" ) 8)

Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:51 pm

Do like I did with my first SB. To lower it I heated the springs with a torch and when the rubber boot on the strut caught fire we put it out with our beer! Now thats ghetto! Seriously, I wouldn't recommend this as my car bottomed out all the time! The ride sucked and I regretted it. Lowered struts are the only way to go in my book. But I'm older and wiser now.

Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:08 am

if u cut the springs it will ride like shit... but it will look a lot better... i've had my super with cut springs for over three years now... it gets old after a while, im tired of bouncing all over the round.

Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:44 pm

Cutting and Heating are both Ghetto, But if I had to I would cut. Heating ruins the springs metal properties. Cut the spring and it will still have the same spacing between coils.

Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:27 pm

If you cut the springs you should shorten the rubber travel limiters also to gain back some of the lost travel. I'm just glad I found a complete set of struts at lansing for a buck. Now I can have a set that are lowered and a stock set if I want.

Mike
59 single, 69 bus, 73 super