KW Variant 1 coilover experiences...

[Digital K]

as a n00b to this forum, I did some searching and didnt get any information I thought relevant to my interests.

I would like to see some photos and hear some personal experiences from those who have had the KW coilovers from tunershop.

anyone?




they are on sale for $1382 now...

http://www.tunershop.com/Suspensions/Coilovers/KW_automotive/KW_coilover_special_edition_Variant_1_for_BMW_E30_%28BMW_3er_E30%29_x200_210_211x_p220846_h4_m837.html

thanks in advance... picking up my first e30 tomorrow.

[Digital K]

awesommeeee

[theox69]

Try and dig up some of Qimis' old threads.
He had them back when he had his dumped alpine e30.

[Jim Lepage]

Ask Madface. He rides them.

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=165441

[Digital K]

thanks Jim.

[PannikAttk]

Considering these as well, as I'm not exactly comfortable with the notion of welding suspension components together.

I'm a longtime VW guy and the fellas over on vwvortex seem to highly regard KW's, so I don't see why they'd be any different for the E30.

Ask for Ingo over at tunershop. I bought some Brock B2's from him a few years back for my MKIV and he was very attentive/informative.

[dnova89]

When I was coilover shopping I asked around and searched about these as well.

What I found to be generally what everyone was saying is that these are not meant to go on the track. If you just want to go low&slow then these are perfect. A lot of people who took these to the track (and even some street cars) have had reliability issues with these blowing and becoming leaky pretty fast.

However I heard that the variant 2 and up are much better and you can find them on a lot of high-performance cars at the track, unfortunately they only make variant 1 for the e30.

That's just what i've read about them so I don't have any first-hand experience to give you.

[Digital K]

thanks. if I get an e30, I doubt it'll ever see the track. just not my bag.