Unsucessful trying to cut my front springs with a sawzall with a thick metal cutting blade I need to know what can I get at home depot to cut it? I know alot of you are cheap and cut your springs 
Tool to cut springs?
Matt.
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go pick up a $25 angle grinder with a cutting wheel and save yourself the trouble of doing it any other way lol...and besides you'll use an angle grinder down the road for something :yes
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im cutting and painting mine this friday
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Make sure you paint them with rust paint as mentioned to prevent... rust!
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Paint em with red rustoleum. make em shine!
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Cut mine today as well... I used a drill with cutting wheel. How much did you cut front/rear?
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if it's too low for your preference you can always add back in the rubber ISO's...:yes
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My car is perfect stance now, I got spacers but i need bigger tires on my back. I have 16 inch rims that came with that I didn't really think were that bad looking, and lowering my car I love it with the 16 inchers and alot of tire.
Pictures soon and ill try to find the drop height
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it might, but im sure it would take quite a while lol.could a dremel work?
and from what ive heard it is best not to heat up the springs while cutting and a dremel will probably do that based on how long it will take for one of those little cut off wheels to get through the spring.
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Ive heard the same thing about how its bad to heat up the spring. I definitely wouldnt be wanting to do that...
But i read somewhere that while the dremel itself might get hot, the dremel wont have enough power/ torque to heat up the actual spring...
I dont know if thats right though.
While an angle grinder would be ideal for this project, im just trying to be ****ing MacGyver and find something at my house that would work lol (plus i dont want to spend money... hahahah)
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if you have a retool nearby you can buy a used grinder for cheap...or pony up the $25 for a new cheap one
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yea yea yea, hahah.
unless you havent already noticed, im a cheap bastard.
anyway, besides the grinder, what other tools could possibly accomplish this job without compromising the integrity of the spring?
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hack saw...get to cutting now lol if you want to be done by tomarrow night
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