was wondering what everyone liked the best out there when it come to springs or coilover setups. my eibachs are shot in the rear and she sags a little nad its time to do somehting new. H & R or eibach again? whats the drop on H & R's. Let me know what you got pics would be great too.
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Originally posted by nando View Posteibach what? I didn't even know they made a kit for ix's.
anyway, "best" depends on what you want to do with it...
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that is dumped! those are definitely not ix springs, in all likelyness it's an eibach pro-kit for regular E30s. Not good. too soft and too short.
judging from the pics, you've got about 1/2" of front suspension travel, and that's before you have gland nut/strut bearing contact, not even counting the bump stops. it probably sits on the bump stops 99% of the time. I bet the ride is terrible. :(
best, simplest, easiest suspension would be H&R sports and bilstein HDs with the bump stops trimmed about 1". it will raise the car some, but that is actually a good thing. Even on coilovers, I'm not anywhere near that low, it's just too low for the ix suspension to work at all. unless you enjoy crashing over tiny bumps :(
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Originally posted by nando View Postthat is dumped! those are definitely not ix springs, in all likelyness it's an eibach pro-kit for regular E30s. Not good. too soft and too short.
judging from the pics, you've got about 1/2" of front suspension travel, and that's before you have gland nut/strut bearing contact, not even counting the bump stops. it probably sits on the bump stops 99% of the time. I bet the ride is terrible. :(
best, simplest, easiest suspension would be H&R sports and bilstein HDs with the bump stops trimmed about 1". it will raise the car some, but that is actually a good thing. Even on coilovers, I'm not anywhere near that low, it's just too low for the ix suspension to work at all. unless you enjoy crashing over tiny bumps :(
yeah i have bilsteins hd on it and yeah thats what i figured bc i never could find a kit for and ix from eibach. its not too bad of a ride but you have to watch where you go for sure bc it will bottom out of the bump stops. i cant wait to get the H&R's on and get this thing de-riceafied lol.sigpic
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I'm sure it'll settle. The front looks stock right now. lol
did you trim the front bump stops?
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yeah they were fine with the other springs but now sit like you said like stock.
I have HRs and Koni in my IX, and I ended up getting larger spring pads for the rear to make the wheel archs match front to rear. I don't like that rear sag, that some E30s get.
where did you get them and which h@r's did you go with? the same ones i got i presume. were the front grey and the back blue? mine where and that was the first set of h&r's ive put on like that. they are usually all blue so that has me wondering if the front are wrongsigpic
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Nope, ix's are gray/blue.
Does your car have trunk tar?
This is how my car sat on h&r, with the top rear pads removed and none up front:
Last edited by nando; 10-23-2012, 08:34 PM.
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