I have a 1980 camaro and i'm thinking of lowwering the front by heating the springs?

Question

has anyone out there tried this? i heard it's ok.give me your feedback.

Answer 1

Don't be stupid.  Just buy the springs and save yourself the pain of a car accident.

It weakens the springs, ruins the ride, and you will be lucky if you can do them both the same so your car will lean.  

You will be rolling in your lopsided car, listening to the laughter of everybody that sees you, wreck the car, and hear them to laugh more.

Answer 2

Instead of lowering the front jack up the  back will give it a 70s look and won't destroy the value of the car.

Answer 3

As a brake and front end specialist for 12 years I will tell you it's a bad idea. Heating the springs weakens them. The springs on a 28 year old car are already sagged considerably. If it breaks while you're heating it, it can break your arm. Lowering the front end changes the geometry of the front end and will eat the tires up.  

Answer 4

Never heat them. It will make the metal brittle. If you can't afford to buy shorter springs, the only safe way to lower your car is to cut the factory springs. Use an angle grinder with a coarse stone or die grinder with a cutoff wheel. Only cut off 1/2 to 1 coil at a time.

Answer 5

By any means, don't.  That weakens your springs and suspension.  If you are going to do something, do it properly, or wait until you can afford to do so.  People who know about cars will know if you jury-rigged it or not and you will get the opposite reaction than you wanted.

Answer 6

Buy yourself some moog springs for your car but with a big block and air conditioning, just the strongest ones you can then cut a half coil off at a time and put it in and put the tire on and look at it if not low enough do it again till it is, this way your car will handle alot better and add new sway bar bushings maybe even poli ones for the best handling,

then have the front end aliend, did this to my chevelle, along with all new bushings and ball joints car handled like a slot car. do not heat springs to lower your car.

Answer 7

Not a good idea to lower a Camaro in the first place ! It's not a 63 Impala !.You can damage the front end by doing this. They may not be able to to keep your front end straight on top of it.

What you're talking about has done before,and you can't reverse this Micky Mouse job. It will kill the value of the car.

BTW, they used to sell clamps that you could use to lower the car.