jonward786

Ever since i installed the Grab-A-Trak® 620 Front Coil Springs on my 68, i was never really satisfied with the ride height. They claimed to lower 1" from stock height, which im sure they did, but they were still about an inch too high for my taste. I was patient and decided to wait to see if they would settle (as everyone was saying they would). Well after a year, they didn't settle at all. The leafs did, but not the coils.

Finally had time to pull them out and sliced 1/2 a coil off them. The results? Perfection. Take a look






And here is a before shot for comparison:

Iskwezm

i never believe that coils settle.

Looks like you them perfectly.Looks great

jp1967stang

stance looks perfect, much better then before

groho

lookin good!

RagHead

Looking GOOD.

dmaclaren

So how does this compare to the Arning 1" drop?

1slow67

Yeah I had the same problem. I started off with 1/2 and eventually took off another 1/2 coil. What size wheels do you have?

You are also more patient than me, I waited a whole 2 days before I cut mine.

Norm Peterson

jon - I'll have to look at your pics at home (I'm guessing they're on photobucket). I've never had problems cutting springs either.


Sometimes they do.

The rear of the Malibu in my sig dropped by well over an inch inside the first month of putting new rear springs in it, and this was clearly noticeable. The weight carried was within the springs' load rating, so it wasn't even a case of overloading that made it happen. There's a side view picture in this album that shows this car with about 1.5" worth of rear spring shimming to bring it back up from being a taildragger. It hasn't settled any further since the initial 'set' took place.


Norm

Iskwezm

Maybe it depends on the brand of coils, but I have never had a coil settle like everybody says it will weather it was my car or a friends I installed.

kalli

i'm not sure if it is the coil or any other part of the suspension. but in my case after shelby drop the front was high. couple times steering it dropped down and then in the matter of a few weeks it seemed to have found it's ride height. on that note if I lift the car in the front and drop it down the car will be high again until I start steering ... no idea where that comes from ....
Friend of mine had car a tad to high (68 fastback with new springs), he cut, was happy, 2 weeks later he would start rubbing ... so I'd always wait for a few miles driving before I'd judge on cutting