I just installed some sportlines and I am pretty pleased with the amount it lowered the car but it still seems like its not quite enough. My question is would it be terrible if I cut off just one more coil for the front ones and leave the back ones as is? I know most everyone on here is against cutting springs and I've read countless forums about it and understand how that will mess with handling and possibly make it dangerous to drive but I take it that most of what I read is aimed towards people wanting to cut stock springs. In fact I stumbled upon some guy's thread saying he had cut his sportlines and everything felt just like before only the car was obviously a little lower now which is partly why I'm asking this right now.

 

Cutting springs FTL
it's just not a good idea. Some people get lucky, but you can't always bank on that small chance

 

What exactly could happen though, especially if its just a small amount I want to cut? I feel like the spring rate wouldn't change that drastically. Also, I don't do any kind of racing, just driving to and from work and whatnot, so I feel like I wouldn't have to worry about handling being affected. Maybe I'm wrong..

 

theres more engineering and design that go into the spring than you're realizing. if you cut them then you're changing a lot of the dynamics of the spring and they won't seat as they're designed to... the pressure of the spring won't be distributed as its supposed to... just don't cut them, especially since you got good springs, if you're set on cutting spring, go buy a crappy set of ebay, but eibach builds very good springs with specific tolerances and load capacities, cutting them compromises a lot

 

damn. So even for a daily driver it will be stupid I take it?

 

For any driving it will be stupid