I'm not buying the short term solution part but it's your car. Springs are manufactured to perform a certain way. The different coil spacings perform different functions. Why pull the springs, cut them, put them back in only to take them out and put other springs back in? My car is set up for the 1/8. When I put my car together, I contacted spring manufacturers and talked to other people that had a similar set up to what I was looking for. No "temporary" solutions. I put it together with the right parts the first time after I was comfortable that I did enough research. If its a cash flow issue, wait til you have the cash saved up. Cutting coils and using springs will "work" but you'll be light years behind suspension components that were designed and manufactured to do what you're looking to do. When someone that did it the right way pulls next to you, you'll see the difference and so will everyone else. Not trying to sound like an A$$hole, just trying to keep you from throwing $$$ away trying to take shortcuts.
Thanks, but there is no buying it or not. At the end of the day it is my car, however I am not one to cheap out on parts for the car, but I am tapped out for right now and want to see what will fit the car (how many " of drop to fit the new tires to know what drop spring to buy in the future).
I just bought a strange S60, new wheels and tires, and a bunch of other parts. I'm about $6k in parts for the car this month, so yeah cash is a little tight. I am NOT going to buy a spring "once" to put in right now when I plan to buy a full UMI suspension kit in the near future, knowing that they WILL NOT work going forward since I will be using a tall balljoint, and maybe a drop spindle. The idea is to see what my overall compressed height will be and where that puts the fenderwell height. From there I can calculate what compressed height spring I will need with the balljoints I use to get it just about right the first time when I redo the entire suspension.
I am also going to be upgrading brakes, most likely to CTS-V calipers and vette rotors, my friend did that on his firebird, but again I am out of money for the moment... so I'll do that, and suspension, when I have accumulated the parts. For now, it just needs to be a touch lower and that will help with the next step.
Thanks to everyone for the help, hopefully next weekend I'll have some pics for you all!
