I bought a $500 (CDN) 91 Civic Si and I wanna Slam ot right down to the floor. What tool can i use for a nice easy cut and also how can I do both side evenly? The car has good suspension, a good motor and nice clean interior. Its only the body thats fucked

 

just to keep it short, dont cut. save up and do it properly

cutting the springs will just hurt the car more.

 

if you plan on driving the car, do the suspension right, and buy actual lowering springs of a coilover kit, dont chop the ones you have. They wont be high enough spring rate to adequately deal with the shortened shock stroke, so youll end up bottoming out on the tiniest bumps, and your ride will be ****.
If you want it dumped, try coilovers or a coilover kit, they generally will give you a greater range of drops than lowering springs will allow.

 

Guys, its a $500 car, How about those cheapass Ebay Coilover sleeves. I have Tein SS Coilovers for my 89 and Im selling the car w/o the Teins so I dont wanna install the Teins on this other civic cause I wanna save the Teins for a Mint Ef Civic and then just build up and put proper suspension on the new civic imma get. I just want a serious drop and also, the car is red and since its an experiment car and a car for me to learn on I was thinking I try and do a rattle can white/gray/black paintjob
kinda like this:

 

wow... just. wow. rattlecan arctic camo!
for that, I think ebay coilovers will be fine.
I completely missed the $500 part in the first post

 

Hope ya know what I mean now...I get the car on April 4th so as soon as I get it I plan to start the project. But is it hard cause of the Factory red paint??

 

If it is such a car why do you want to drop it? Just either get some used OEM spring and prop it back to stock, they are cheap and usually people throw in old shocks free anyways.

 

Joe, dont cheat on your life man, its a dangerous thing to do man.......

 

Just take all the springs/shocks off and use a marker to mark each one and cut them evenly. But i would go with ebay sleeves, but they probably won't ride that well.

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He's cheating life? Lmao, this guy is mad just because he went through 3+ coilover setups and couldn't drop his car to the height he wanted.

 

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If you want the car to still be driveable, you'll want a really good set of shocks. If you look around on this site, you might be able toget some used Koni Yellows in your price range, and then you can cut the stock springs.

The reason everyone hates on cut springs, is because its usually done with stock shocks. The OEM shocks can't handle the low ride height, or the increased spring rate, which is why they blow out very fast, and bounce even before they blow out. A cut spring is no different than a lowering spring, they're both shorter and stiffer than stock, the real difference is how much of each. However, thats for linear springs, and progressive springs could get "interesting" depending on which end is cut, and how much.

And a dremmel with a cutoff wheel is probably the best choice to cut the springs with.

If I were to dump a car on a budget, I'd do DIY extended top hats (to help keep the shocks from being fully compressed all the time), buy as good of shocks as the budget allows (used could be a real $$ saver here), cut stock bump stops (unless you would like to sit on the bumpstops themselves to help avoid bottoming by increasing the spring rate), push the front shock down into the fork a little to get even lower, and cut a coil off the springs. Just check your wheel wells periodically, because if the 91 front suspension is similar to my DC2, then the UCAs can hit the chassis (mine have).

 

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cutting the springs will just hurt the car more.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

i used a angle ginder cuts like butter
btw i didnt use the springs i cut them caz i was too lazy to get a spring compressor