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Originally Posted by TPI Monte SS

A rope? A heavy duty chain should be used as a bare minimum. The IROC springs compress at 700 lb/in; pretty scary if that thing goes flying, and could do major bodily harm if it got loose. I would think the 6-cylinder cars have a milder spring rating so it should be easy as easy as this; put the car high up on jackstands, chock the rear wheels, take off the front wheels, disconnect the tie rods and swaybar endlinks, unbolt the strut from the lower a-arm, break the lower balljoint loose, then gradually lower the jack to loosen the spring pressure. After the spring is out, the lower A-arm will swing down, and there's only 2 bolts on it holding it into the frame.

However, installing them might be tricky, since I'm assuming the V6 is lighter than the V8 (well, maybe not, compared to an LS1). You might need a spring compressor to re-install the springs. When we did the suspension on my '88 SS, the motor and trans were out so the frontend was considerably lighter. My friend and I found that we were actually lifting the car off the jackstands since we were trying to muscle in 600+ lb. Eibach drop springs. I wound up borrowing a spring compressor from work to get them in.

Well the stock pre-98 v6 engines wiegh the same as an LS1