chopping springs is retarded and who every said chopping springs is good, has no idea what he is talking about,

if you chop a spring you completely f*ck up hookes law, which is what models characteristics of springs.

F= -kx where:

f = force exerted
k = spting constant
x = displacement of spring

if you chop the spring, your x value changes dramatically and for what your car is designed for (ie stock spring length) everything is put out of wack

also if you chop a spring, you are exposing the metal surface (with no forum of corrosion resistance) and can later on you can have rusty springs which i assume you can imagine will lose all structural integrity and be more likely to f*ck up

if you chop springs and use your stock shocks then you now have shocks which will not work with the chopped springs due to changes in spring length vs shock stroke etc, so that wont be very good either

just spend the extra money and buy proper springs rather than hack up your oem springs because:

1: you can reuse oem springs later to return car to stock height if selling
2: if you chop springs, you are the same as every single vl sump drifter out there
3: spring wont even sit in spring perch evenly. if you chop a spring then you are now resting the spring on a point rather than the sides and could do damage to the spring perch
4:

rah rah rah rah

could go on forever

DONT CHOP SPRINGS! >.<