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Cutting the spring is not necessarily dangerous!

Man, this isn't rocket science and its not voodoo either!

A spring is designed to carry a certain load and travel a certain distance.
First you assume that you don't affect the heat treatment of the spring so it will not loose and of its physical properties in the compressible area and that it is a linear rate spring and not progressive. (I can justify this assumption as long as you aren't using a cutting torch)
If you lop off one coil then all you do is reduce the length of the spring and the ultimate load it can carry before it bottoms out. That is it and there is nothing dangerous about that. As long as you clock the spring into the correct position then it isn't going to make a rats a$$ is you are 1mm to 1cm off in your cut from right to left. This is because 75% of the whole first coil is sitting in the spring seat on the strut mounts.
Again, less coils mean less load bearing ability and less travel distance, nothing else.