I have to post from my Personal/Work account since Hotchkis is not a site sponsor and I can't post here on their behalf. I'm going to say right off the bat that those springs are shot; that said I cannot tell if it is from defect or misuse at this time without at least the springs to test but at this point that is moot. We have several cars running those springs from 350-600hp and non of them have managed to wrap the springs like that. What I'm HOPING is that you got a defective set and I will talk to the powers that be about swapping your springs. We haven't had any feedback from any other customers in your batch that I know of, so you're literally 1 in 250 that have had this issue. I can't remember our previous conversations and I can't find our old e-mails. You can call me direct at 928-783-5421 or e-mail me at
[email protected] with your phone number so we can talk about this. I'll be at my shop from 8am to 4pm PST today.
Our products are designed to be a bolt on solution to 95% of owners needs. The springs you have are for a bodies with 8 3/4 rears, a properly mounted driveline, using the proper shackles. You are officially in the 5% with your car my friend, welcome to hot rodding. I can say from experience that with my Dana 60 in the Road Runner, I had pinion clearance issues initally. Its a big freaking center section, and I had to shim the pinion angle to get it away, and ran no snubber.