noob lowering question

[Vivek]

Megan racing 5" springs. They're okay with the spring pads in, you'll hit the bump stops occasionally. With no spring pads (like my sig) you'll be bouncing off the seat and will quickly blow your shocks and potentially tear your shock towers (I learned all this after the fact, thankfully my towers are fine but one shock is blown).

[J.Rizo]

My sig is JOM's in the front all the way down. Rear has different springs but you can't run JOM Stagg shocks that low. I had maybe an inch of travel.

so you had JOM coils in the front and what in the back? ima go the JOM route too. broke 18 year old.

[BMW Fanaddict]

Ya i like them, a lot of people dont like the diving boards, and for the most part neither do I, but i had one and they looked fine when i tucked them.


And this car.....nuff said

http://cdn.stanceworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_8202.jpg

[CHIF8008]

early models rock.

[BMW Fanaddict]

Alright I have seen enough... getting som JOM's. They look awesome and are very cheap... now about getting that car XD

[Vivek]

Damn!!!! JOM coils are cheap as fuuuuu**!!! anyone run these? pics maybe?

My sig is JOM's in the front all the way down. Rear has different springs but you can't run JOM Stagg shocks that low. I had maybe an inch of travel.

[CHIF8008]

i ran them: powa of JOM


this was with very slight modification to them and not all the way down up front. rear was with adjusters out. eventually just got shorter rear springs

but then i did huge modifications and now only run the adjuster sleeve/ collars and front spring. and even that im replacing with other springs. but now i can set the whole car on the floor statically

[BMW Fanaddict]

Damn!!!! JOM coils are cheap as fuuuuu**!!! anyone run these? pics maybe?

[Vivek]

Ok I'm thinking ill probably have to get a billy coilovers kit. They run around 740$. They are adjustable correct? What's the lowest Billy's can drop it? I have some vogtland lowering springs... But I'm mostly likely selling them to help get the money for my next car. They only lower it 1.6 and I definitely want to go lower than that. Anyone have pics of their e30 lowered on Billy's?

Don't do that. If you wanna go low get GC (about 1k) or JOM and save some money. Or you can look into other coilovers like megan or bc, but to get low bilstiens and some springs aren't what you want.

[BMW Fanaddict]

I don't ;)

[bmwguy325is]

If you were a man you wouldnt even run springs

[BMW Fanaddict]

Ok I'm thinking ill probably have to get a billy coilovers kit. They run around 740$. They are adjustable correct? What's the lowest Billy's can drop it? I have some vogtland lowering springs... But I'm mostly likely selling them to help get the money for my next car. They only lower it 1.6 and I definitely want to go lower than that. Anyone have pics of their e30 lowered on Billy's?

[mbonanni]

JOM coilovers

~$400

[Vivek]

Just cut your springs in half and blow the stock dampers if you don't care about comfort or performance. Anything more and you're looking at spending over a thousand on coilovers with shortened front housings. There's no midrange that's worth the money imo. Once you go into replacing your dampers, you might as well get shortened bilsteins/konis and shorten your front housings.

This sounds like extremely shitty advice, but in my opinion you should just do it right, or do it completely wrong. From a price point of view, you can get as low as you want for free with a cutting wheel. But when you start spending money, you'll quickly realize that it really makes the most financial sense to just get complete coilovers, and you'll like it a lot more.

[rasputin]

wait for someone to be selling a set of springs, cut dead coil off front and get drop hats(aftermarket top spring perch), remove all spring pads and install.

you should be slammed, if not cut a little more off springs, add spring pads to raise up if need be.
skid plate, 100-200

and nothing wrong with cutting coils in moderation.