biggreg

So I know I am about to take a lot of heat for this, but keep your negative comments to yourself. I have a 96 200sx se 1.6L 5spd. The car is a daily driver, completely stock right now, but gorgeous! I want to do a budget drop. As in cheap as possible This drop is going to be simply for ASTHETIC purposes, not performance. I'm going to use factory replacement struts. Which is better cheap ebay lowering springs or just cutting my factory springs? Has anyone on here cut their springs? If so how many coils did you cut and how much drop do you have?

I know ALL about our cars only having 3 inches of suspension travel and that i will bottom out a lot and I will cut my bump stops or get new ones. I'm not dropping $800 in coilovers for a $2500 car. Again please keep your negative comments to yourself.

NismoTheDog

i would get those super cheap ebay coilover sleeves(kinda like knock off ground control sleeves) with a short spring (like 160mm) and that way you can dump it on stock struts but still have slight adjustment of the height. this is a sh*t setup of course but it will get you low for not much dough..

Shawn B

First, when you make a new thread on this forum, you do NOT have any control over the responses. You do NOT get to chose who posts what in reply to your new thread. You simply decide to take the good with the bad, negative with positive. That is how a forum operates, welcome to the internet. You do not get to dictate that you only want positive, happy, kumbaya, let's all be happy, sunshine and daffodils responses.

Your little thread, with rules dictated by you, which is different from any other thread on this performance oriented forum? No. Even if you were a Super Moderator declaring that crap, you and I would be going round and round over your self-absorbed, egocentric bullsh*t request.

Awesome. Doing a budget drop, as cheap as possible, on a $2,500.00 car. So it is all about the money. Understood.

You are going to dramatically increase the wear and lower the MTBF (mean time before failure) on all of your other suspension components. Which will result in higher overall owner costs than if you actually attempted to do your drop reasonably correctly. Start saving now for back-up, replacement to your replacement, struts, ball joints, and tie-rod ends.

Your bump-stops will be inconsequential in this equation. You could use proper Konis or stale Krispy-Creme donuts and it would not matter one way or the other. Either way, those bump-stops are going to be thrashed.

Which feels better, a sharp stick in the eye, or a soccer-style kick to the nads?

Which tastes better, a cat-sh*t sandwich, or owl-crap on toast?

Which would you rather have maul you to death and feast on your innards, a grizzly or a tiger?

Question: What is a better way to blow your new factory replacement struts, cheap ebay lowering springs, or just cutting your factory springs?

Answer: Cutting the springs of course, there is zero cost just manpower and tools. And I would save the money on the cheap ebay lowering springs and use it for buying more new struts, ball joints, and tie-rod ends.

Glad I could get you straightened out and pointed in the right direction.

Always here to be of service.

Shawn B

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