{"id":3879,"date":"2018-04-26T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2018-04-26T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:00:48","slug":"throwback-coil-spring-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/26\/throwback-coil-spring-modification\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback: Coil Spring Modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking another look back at a post from two years ago. Don&#8217;t do this to your car.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>There are ways to lower the ride height of your car that aren&#8217;t that bad. This was not one of those ways.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-764\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016_04_21_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_04_21_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Changing the length of your springs is the main way to change your ride height, but usually people either buy shorter springs, or they cut out part of the spring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-765\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016_04_21_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_04_21_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not what this owner did. They had their springs heated up and bent, which is really not a good thing to do. You can see that some parts are even touching each other. I would not be surprised if this didn&#8217;t ride very well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-767\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016_04_21_03.jpg\" alt=\"2016_04_21_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a common side effect of ride height modification is irregular tire wear, often making you wear through a set of tires much quicker than usual. Unless you know what you&#8217;re doing, lowering or raising your vehicle isn&#8217;t going to be that practical in the long run.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking another look back at a post from two years ago. Don&#8217;t do this to your car. There are ways to lower the ride height of your car that aren&#8217;t that bad. This was not one of those ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[48,58,61],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-mods","tag-suspension","tag-throwback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}