I bought a qa1/hal drag spring setup off a fellow board member and I finally installed them. When I put them in the car, the car was riding really high so I lowered the spring perches so the car would come down some. Well I got it to about 2 inches from where it needs to be, and the spring is totally loose in the perch now. Basically, the unstretched length of the spring is less than the distance between the bottom spring perch and the top mount so it just moves around when there is no load on the a-arm. Is this normal or is it possible that this spring is too short? I checked the part number and it was right and the unstretched length is 14 inches which is also right from what I've seen so I'm not sure what I can do. It seems to me that the spring should always be in tension between the perches or else if you did a wheelie, the spring would float around until you landed and then it might not land in the correct position.

I have the bottom spring perch about 4 inches from the bottom of the shock, which I also found weird because most people said they had the bottom perch up about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way (mine is much less). Any thoughts? This is really getting irritating since my buddy has the same setup and his ride height is lower and the spring is still under compression.