Interesting KW Variant 3 problem

[g00se]

So for about a week (when i began to notice it) my s14 has been feeling odd, the steering and handling have been a little off and i have been getting more vibration through the steering wheel.

So today i jacked my car up and discovered this little surprise



Springs look close together?

take a 1/4 turn and find this









A little background, installed the variant 3s about 8 months ago. Never tracked, not lowered to the maximum, pretty much my daily. Also city streets in my neighborhood are pretty decent without enormous potholes.

This didn't happen on the much cheaper Ksports that was ridden on for the last 5 years. I felt that if i should upgrade the car i should make the upgrade worthwhile hence the variant 3s..

Anyone else have a spring shear on them?

Kind of disappointed now