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      06-29-2010, 04:41 AM   #1
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Stiffening and Lowering an E92

After Saturdays Northern Meet - i'd like to get some new springs for my E92

We were on pretty bumpy backroads - and the car felt pretty wallowy at points

I want to get some new springs to stiffen up the feel of the car - its on NON-run flat tyres

Any recommendations???

Max

PS. presumably leaving the standard dampers in there will be OK??
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[QUOTE=ibanezking;7579894]After Saturdays Northern Meet - i'd like to get some new springs for my E92

We were on pretty bumpy backroads - and the car felt pretty wallowy at points

I want to get some new springs to stiffen up the feel of the car - its on NON-run flat tyres

Any recommendations???

Max

What you need is my set of Eibach Pro-kit springs, fab condition, boxed up and ready to post.

PM me if intersted.

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After Saturdays Northern Meet - i'd like to get some new springs for my E92

We were on pretty bumpy backroads - and the car felt pretty wallowy at points

I want to get some new springs to stiffen up the feel of the car - its on NON-run flat tyres

Any recommendations???

Max

PS. presumably leaving the standard dampers in there will be OK??
Mate, the wallowing is down to the low speed damping being too soft on our cars, not the springs.

See here for what you really need.... (and read the article too in which they have SOFTENED the springs whilst lowering the car and STILL improved the handling no end) - its all in the damping.

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=401537

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Mate, the wallowing is down to the low speed damping being too soft on our cars, not the springs.

See here for what you really need.... (and read the article too in which they have SOFTENED the springs whilst lowering the car and STILL improved the handling no end) - its all in the damping.

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=401537



And I suspect designed that way to mask the crap ride of the RFTs.

As above, increasing the spring rates will make a bumpy B road worse anyhow.
It's a trade off.
Maybe try uprated ARBs first?
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