Yeah I was just lucky, I was crouching down, and had hold of the shock under the spring and just went for it, and it just shot up away from me, all 3 parts went straight over the car, one of them just touched the side near the mirror leaving the tiniest scratch !!!!
And under load, hell yeah they are under load, at least 200mm
I just had my coil overs out of my manta and changed to adjustable top mounts, they are just loosen the height adjustment and spring is off tension and good to pull apart no spring compressor needed,
I would hate to see it hit some one, dam it would of hurt lol