01-16-2012, 04:01 PM | #1 |
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Street coil-over recommendations
I have had the 1M now for a few days and would like some feedback regarding street suspension. On my e46 M3 I had ground-control coil-overs with camber plates. Looked great and handled nicely. Next was my 997 C2S which had Bilstein damptronic coil-overs, had it fully corner balanced etc. What a WORLD of difference those made. It was night and day imho. Then next was the e92 M3. Went a different route and did just drop springs to be compatible with the EDC. Seemed to work quite well and I was happy with that setup also.
So now here is the 1M: no EDC = no need to compromise. But if I am using the car 90% for street and 10% on mountain drives, CCA events, 1-2 track events per year what do you think? Would you go with just springs or would you still go coil-overs? Pluses of the latter are no wear on stock struts, better handling, adjustability, etc. Only con I can think of is price. And given this, would you go KWV3 or something else like TC Kline, JRZ, etc? Right now I am strongly leaning towards KWV3. Would love to hear some feedback!
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The ohlins street option seems the coilover to beat in my mind. I haven't fully understood the valving design they are using on their "street" package, but the fact that they have 7 post shaker rig data to match the springs/ shocks/ chassis is huge.
For your usage I suspect you don't need adjusters. I'd suggest the vast majority of people just get into trouble with them- you really don't want to be "stiffening them up for the track", etc. Better to get something valved correctly to the springs you'll be using until you get to a very high level...
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