Cut and Streched?
 

Im cutting the springs and it seems that you loose some overall height doing this.

What If you Streched the Springs to account for the missing coils?

Wouldnt this soften the spring but retain the stock length of the spring?

I cut 4 coils out of each spring and my ride hight is vertually the same. The extra flex made it a way better wheeler anyway...

The springs would most likely collapse right back to where they were, the lowering is minimal and helps more than it hurts.

You DO lose ground clearance under the chassis when cutting the springs. With 4 coils gone I lost about 1/2".

Due to the suspension design the wheelbase actually increases if you lower it.

So Jason. Would streching the cut springs help anything?

Also, how should I cut the tires???

Not sure on stretching the springs.

If I'm thinking correctly...spring rate is spring rate. If you stretch the spring it'll be deformed but still have the same rate. But...not sure.

I'd cut the tires with a pair of sprue cutters.

how you cut them is up to you man. On the lil' Jeep I cut the small sections out of the tires.

I personally would NOT stretch the springs out. Try this first and then decide for yourself: get a clicky pen. Put the part you click with your thumb on a table or something hard, and click the pen so that it will go IN on the next click. Then let it go and let it fly. Then, take the spring out, stretch it, put it back, and do the same thing. The spring will shoot the pen much higher. It has something to do with the metal and how it is keeping its shape. When you shape it differently, it will go back to that shape. (Note how you can't make it get smaller without taking some what extreme measures.) The springs in the crawlers will do the same thing, and do ten-fold. The metal is much thicker, dense, and by default stronger and will resist compression even more so than stock springs would. Don't do it.

yeah I noticed that the cut/streched springs felt about the same as the stock springs...

So I cut them down more. Rears are cut and streched and cut again. Fronts are just cut.

I only siped my tires, once down the middle of the v then parallel with each notch that is already there.