Lemony fresh suspension....

That strikes me as a broken spring waiting to happen...... :\

What could possibly go wrong?  Go get 'em!

i see nothing wrong with this mod, have fun!

I didn't think i needed the " /sarcasm " tag. thanks for proving me wrong.

I effectively dislike and avoid any and all unnecessary heat treatments to springs, AKA torching them. Without a proper facility and machinery to equally heat the coils in a consistent manner, there's no way to avoid causing a stress point or inconsistently changing the springrate.

that being said,

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i see no way in which this plan can fail.

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Ok, who has actually done this and speaks from experience? This is Lemons right? I don't know either, but I think all it will do is make the spring soft. I doubt it will break, but if ti does, so what? look on the streets in the north... many GM and old VW's with broken springs they don't even know they have I bet.... Chillax guys... this is just Lemons after all. Me, I sprung for the $30 Chinese coilovers, but to each their own...

Heating the springs will destroy their temper, but they won't suddenly snap and send the car barrel rolling into hyperspace. The best way is to use a cutoff wheel with patience and  lots of water to keep it cool...I've done it both ways and although there is no dumb/self-inflicted failure mode that I haven't experienced first hand, a collapsed spring isn't high on my pucker list......for a lot of crapcans it might not make much difference!

I know what you mean...I once broke a torsion bar in my Mopar and wondered why it turned in so well....

Thank you.  We actually did remove the springs from the car but there was no way to cut the fronts without the spring being shaped that it wouldn't fit the upper perch properly setting the whole deal up for failure/damage to the strut assembly.  If it even did snap all that would happen is a collapse of that side on to the bump stop and considering last year we lifted the inside wheel on EVERY turn (except the banked one obviously), now that the car is about 2 inches lower I don't really see how that could end in a barrel rolling catastrophe.  Although we considered it we have not installed exploding charges pointed at the ground on the opposite ends of the car triggered to go off in such an occasion.

There is far worse and less safe that makes it on to the track every event, and some even finish.

This was/is our number 1 concern, but we will hopefully be testing the car this weekend at an autox to see how far off it is. 

We know its by FAR not the best way to do what we needed to do (lower the car) but if you saw the whole strut assembly you would see that cutting the springs would not allow us to re-assemble the strut properly creating a more likely failure point.  And lowering springs just aren't in the budget (and hard to find for this thing anyway).