Well story is, the orange shock is from a high end, high dollar german machine and the other is the OE shock on my ride.
Mounts are the same top and bottom, but the length is about 1 1/2" longer.
Can anyone teach me in the ways of properly cutting a spring?
whats that other little doohickey hanging off the orange one? sway bar mount?
rebound adjustment, dampening on the bottom
It still has less than 1/2 the adjustments of my downhill mountain bike shock :)
You're gonna need to do something about the spring rate as well as the length.
you don't chop that kind of spring- you'd need to be able to wind the last coil up tight to the next coil an then grind it flat again. and if you did chop it, you would be making the spring a lot stiffer by doing so. different springs like that are probably pretty cheap, assuming that there is a way to get the spring off the shock without destroying either of them. look up AFCO coilover springs and go from there.
novaderrik wrote: you don't chop that kind of spring- you'd need to be able to wind the last coil up tight to the next coil an then grind it flat again. and if you did chop it, you would be making the spring a lot stiffer by doing so. different springs like that are probably pretty cheap, assuming that there is a way to get the spring off the shock without destroying either of them. look up AFCO coilover springs and go from there.
We did just that with the Lemons car. We chopped the coil quickly with a cut of wheel. Then we heated just the very end and rewound the last coil flat and ground it with a flap wheel. It made it 4-5 races and it's still on the remnants of the car in the field now without ever sagging or breaking - it can be done, but you have to do it right.
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