question on hotchkis coil springs

[almcbri]

I bought a set of hotchkis coil springs off of a guy at PT.com and he said they had been cut, but were installed on his 68 camaro. When I put the springs on, they had no resistance when connecting the uca/lca's to the spindle. I didn't even need a spring compressor? The way it looks, the springs will not work, but I thought I would ask first. When I lowered the car on the ground, the springs were still not compressed and had a little play.

Will these work once I get my engine, trans and other stuff on the car, or do I need to buy some new springs? I looked at camaroboy69's web site and checked out how he had cut his stock coils, and after laying my stock coils next to my hotchkis coils, they would be the same length as the hotchkis, if I remove the coils from the stock ones. Thanks for any info., I have never ran into this issue, so I thought I would ask.