The Cabrio Suspension Thread

[Das Delfin]

Thanks! It's got a cross brace in the front but no strut tower brace yet - I'm waiting for a local deal on one of those. I've noticed when cornering the chassis flex is now a bit ridiculous. I don't want to put a 6 point cage in my car so I may go back to H&R sports so the suspension is better balanced with the chassis flex

It's so bad that mid corner you have to readjust your turn in angle so the back of the car stays flat with the front, which is of course pretty distracting and quite scary. I set it up like this for autox but apparently stiff springs aren't always the answer!

[Bearmw]

Nice job! The car looks great.

[Das Delfin]

This is H&R race with one coil cut off the fronts with 15" wheels and 205-50 tires

[d.brocco]

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[Klug]

Has anyone ever successfully used the green Racing Dynamics on Koni Yellow Sports?

Trying to dig up some more info around the RD's and H&R Sport rate differences. I've been running used vert RD's with new Koni Yellow Adjustable Sports (86 2277 Sport) for the past two years (which is only about 2k miles in total)

Recently, my front end is getting real bad and rough- I'm thinking with the heavy s52 and these RD's being god only how old and used- are finally losing their original spring rates. I'd prefer to upgrade to H&R's but really want to make sure that if I do switch over, that i'm not going any softer than what I have now. I have H&R Sports on my red coupe and they work great with Koni Yellow Adjustables (but as we all know, these verts are not as easy to dial into a good spring/shock combo)

These RD's are really hard to get any solid information on, curious if anyone has been through the same switch or vice versa and what they noticed in differences.

[Mike36]

Thanks, the ride height looks good to me but the ride is rougher than I'd like. I'm probably going to swap the springs out for Cabrio Sports.

Yeah that's exactly what I'm doing. I just purchased my HR cabrio springs, I may run drophats in the front.

[Poorhouse]

HR Cabrio springs, Billstein Sports, Euroweaves with 205/55/15.

[IronJoe]

looks great!

Thanks, the ride height looks good to me but the ride is rougher than I'd like. I'm probably going to swap the springs out for Cabrio Sports.

[parkerbink]

looks great!

[IronJoe]

Posting up as my previous photos weren't on level ground.

H&R Race
Bilstein Sport
Full E30 M3 5lug
16x7.5" E28 M5 wheels, 225/45R16 tires

[Mike36]

H&R Race
10mm Spring Pads Rear
Bilstein Sports F & R
16x8 ET14 195/50/16
16x9 ET14 205/50/16

[Bearmw]

And my sales brochure photo...

https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=121200&stc=1&d=1526174336

[Bearmw]

Here is my 2800 pound M30 swap car with M3 rear springs and stock upper and lower pads. The front springs are H&R ( non-cabrio) sports with stock strut mounts and I.E. fixed camber plates with about 1.5° added and they add about 11 mm stack height. The rear sway bar is a 19 mm I.E. unit at the softest setting and and the front is one of their hollow 25 mm bars also at the softest setting. I first tried a 22 mm front bar but it had clearance issues with the X brace. I have adjustable end links in the rear but the fronts are non-adjustable stock type Meyle HD. I blew out the stock type rear strut mounts and have upgraded to I.E. heavy duty ones. I have a Mason X brace. Front struts are Koni S.A. while the rear shocks are KYBs. Tires are 225/50/15. It handles pretty damn good and has adequate ground clearance and compliance which is necessary for the rural roads I frequent.

https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=121198&stc=1&d=1526173610

[Mwishlist]

Now that I have some decent pics I will add mine. I am running Ground Control 400f/600r springs with koni shocks and stock spring mounts up front.

Also, if anyone is interested this is as low as you can go with the ground control front without cutting the spring perch - total plug and play. I don't need to be super low, especially with the 24v swap; so I just left them like this.

[LorenzeTorres]

Alright dudes! I need you help. Swapped my setup for BC's and though they look and handle great, boy do they ride terrible.

The rear end is giving me the most pain. It feels like it sharply drops coming off of bumps.

Running 8K rears and 12 clicks from softest.

Should I change spring rates? Dampening?

86ED0624-C9CA-46AC-BF0B-D9935BD411DC by lorenze torres, on Flickr