Thread: cutting springs on xfire?
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Old Dec 3, 2008 | 03:25 PM
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Default Re: cutting springs on xfire?
ppro, don't take the following personally, as it wasn't your letter.

Originally Posted by spring sales lady
When you cut a spring the structural integrity is damaged.


Bullhockey. A spring cut with a bandsaw is not damaged, except for the removal of paint.

People will argue this but if you look at most springs there are dead coils and then there are active coils.


Bullhockey. There's no such thing as a dead coil or an active coil. A spring has coils at various wire diameters, spring diameters, and coil amounts per inch. A spring also has ends. Some ends are flattened and ground flat, others are full coils throughout the length of the spring (like Crossfires). If you cut the end of a flattened, ground spring down and do not again flatten/grind the end to match the original, then you have done the job wrong. Fortunately, on the Crossfire, the springs are wound to the ends without flats

to keep the spring tight when the perches are at full rebound!


This is the only factual statement in that entire sentence.

You also have to take into consideration the spring rate is now compromised


Bullhockey. Compromised implies that it has become worse. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The spring rate has been increased, not "compromised".

damaging the strength


We are living in the 21st century not the middle ages. Modern science shows us that the metal in springs have a near isotropic composition. Cutting the end off with a bandsaw doesn't damage the strength anywhere.

you are also destroying the handling characteristics!


Explain to me how increasing the spring rate of a suspension "destroys" the handling characteristics. Properly accounted for, increasing the spring rate is exactly what people want (stiffen up the suspension.)

There's so much hyperbole in that email it's almost entirely clear that it's a sales piece. The one thing that aftermarket springs buy you is a determined spring rate with the length of the original spring.
 
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