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Tonester · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: How much to cut the springs?

Hi, everyone it has been a long time since i have talked to anyone, i think it was last year dyno gathering. Any way i have done a few things to my car and had a question. First off at the end of last summer i bought a 93 m29 T56 and installed it in my car. I know the 93's have a lower tq rating but i love the gear ratios. In the process of putting the T56 in my dad made our X mem out of aluminium. Ok so it looks more like a Y member, i will take a pic soon. Since the stock t56 shifter is two pieces my dad and i mad our own top half. Recently i had to pull the trany back out, allway make sure you put lock tight on the clutch fork bolt, so i put in a new clucth and my dad and i modified the bottom half of the shifter. We cut the lower section, below where it bolts to the tranny, in half and welded in a 1/4 inch extention and then made a spacer to fit between the shifter plate and the tranny. This dramaticly reduce the throw of my shifts. I would show you a pic of the shifter if you knew how to post a Pic.

Now for my question, soon we are going to cut my springs and i was just wandering if anyone knew how much to cut them, a good amount.
Thanx for any replys.
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Dewey316 · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:29 am Post subject:

I would start at 1/2 or 3/4 coil, and see how it does, you might trim more.

Ask cheezy what happens if you cut to much at first. Wink

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:05 pm Post subject:

CheezX · Member Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 90

Hey, that saved myself some time. Would've had to go back and cut another 1/4 coil off anyway. Laughing

I cut 1 coil front, 1.5 rear and removed rear isolators. Car is sitting nice right now, maybe the rear is a tad too high. I had to put the front isolators back in to keep it off the bumpstops (and these are short aftermarket bumpstops). Now I have at least 1/4" of travel before hitting them (not that I'd need that much Very Happy

). That's on WS6 springs and a 3250lb car.

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:

3250 lb car

You have a 600 lb advantage on my sleddage. Car looks hot though Mikey!

-Schultzy

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject:

How'd you ditch that much weight and add a T56?!

Dewey316 · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject:

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

rjmcgee · The Hammer Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2320

I stopped at a set of truck scales on the way home tonight and mine weighs 3350 with out me and 3/4 tank of gas. There was a few pounds worth of crap that I shouldn't need on the track too, like a .44 Mag rifle and some tools.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

CheezX · Member Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 90

iansane · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:36 am Post subject:

Tonester · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:12 am Post subject:

My car weighed 3200 with a sub box, now gone, before i did the trany swap and i had a t5. The box weighed about 40-50 lbs and the trany weights 75 lbs more then the t5 so that about where i am at.