CD5 - Lowered springs

[Nepolian]

Hi Guys,

My Accord was lowered about 2 months. Now it is lower than what I wanted. Whilst it isnt slammed as they are only std lower springs, I use it to carry alot of heavy stuff. Quick desc would be that the top of the tyres are almost on par with the guard, which about normal.

WHAT I WOULD LIKE IS TO SWAP SOMEONE WITH A SETUP WHICH IS NOT SO LOW! DONT WANT STD SPRINGS AS I HAVE THEM!

IE...YOU WANNA GO LOWER, I WANNA GO HIGHER, WE SWAP.

Throw me a line on what you have and we'll go from there. I am using std shocks atm. Will swap spring only or complete, up to you.

Pics of car will surely help.

Thanks in advance

[FAT VTI]

champ,
Ebay off your springs ,
get k-macs, they manufacture in house to your desired ride height, therefore the height will be exactly wat YOU want it to be.
but remember, allow for sagging over a long period of time.
Sean

[Spoon-Accord]

compressing springs aswell is a bad thing,
compress 3 inches from my standard springs,
it dropped another 2, now the wheels are up in the wells,
and my car is scrapping the floor arrghh, to hell with compressed springs

on with the coilovers

[FAT VTI]

yeah i agree,
however compressed aftermarket springs, 1-1.5inch should be okay, however i do believe your springs are only as good as ur shocks, worry more bout your shocks then your springs, unless your oem ones are known to be very good.


Sean

[Feverpitched]

Aftermarket springs aren't compressed, they're manufactured to spec. Compressing, or oxy-lowering, is about as dodgy as cutting coils.

[JohnL]

compressing springs aswell is a bad thing,
compress 3 inches from my standard springs,
it dropped another 2, now the wheels are up in the wells,
and my car is scrapping the floor arrghh, to hell with compressed springs

If you've heated the spring (with a blowtorch?!) to lower it then then unless you've done it properly you've definitely detroyed the temper of the steel in at least some part of the spring, and now the elastic limit of the steel has been drastically reduced, which is why you ended up with more drop than you wanted. The springs are now junk, get new ones, they will probably keep dropping over time until the damaged coils become coil bound.

There is a 'proper' way to compress / shorten coils. This involves placing the coil in a special spring compressor (that ensures the spring is compressed in a perfectly 'straight' manner, not more on one side than the other), then compressing the coil by the amount you want to shorten. The compressed coil and the spring compressor are now placed in a hot oven and heated to a certain temperature that is BELOW the temperature that will affect the heat treatment of the steel, and left for a few hours at this temp, then allowed to slowly cool down.

You need to know the correct temp at which to do this (and I'm not sure what it is, and it may vary from steel to steel but may not). A spring correctly shortened in this manner will retain the original rate (as opposed to a cut spring that will become slightly or significantly stiffer, depending on how much wire length has been cut off), but because of this will be in even more danger of easily bottoming out than a cut spring of the same length

[FAT VTI]

i didnt say they came compressed, i said u could get them compressed.

And as said above by john L, there is certainly a proper way of doing it, and many sussy shops should be able to do a decent job

Sean

[Spoon-Accord]

i'll take a picture of my car before and after the compressing and you'll see the diffrence,

compressed springs = crap!

do it right the first time or leave it stock,

my 2cents

[fongyfong]

how low are the springs and what brand are they i got king springs

[Spoon-Accord]

i got standard bmw springs compressed lol

[Nepolian]

how low are the springs and what brand are they i got king springs

If you are refering to me, then they're std king lows.

[esprit]

Thinking of grabbing a set of these to try, says they're designed to work with OEM shocks too: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/90-93...QQcmdZViewItem

Anyone else tried em?