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Originally Posted by Chad_W
Can you explain in what way cutting the springs will weaken them?
I understand that the lower you go, the higher the spring rate needs to be in order to prevent the suspension from bottoming out. If you go too low the increase in spring rate may not be appropriate for the ride height, but for what I'm doing that should not be an issue.
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you will be heating the metal up when you cut it and that will weaken it near the cut point. Is it likely going to fail... no, but there is a greater chance and why take that risk?
You ride will become much softer and bouncy and to boot you will ride on your bump stops a lot during hard cornering and this will upset the car and lead to unstable (possibly unsafe) cornering. You really should just buy some used spring if you are looking to save a buck.
Edit: its not hard to hit the OEM bumpstop with everything stock