The shortest dampers you can get without shortening housings are the spax adjustables. They are shorter than the koni's that are a direct bolt on. They will lower the car plenty IMO. I can lower mine lower than the car will drive on my wheels. The ground control kit for 1600 uses stock housings but they will shorten them and use the appropriate struts for 200 bucks extra. Expensive but it also comes with the nice camber plates and heavy duty rear strut mounts which youll want to replace anyways.
If you are interested in building your own shortened housing setup then you can run vw mk1 front inserts(there are others that will work too i believe.. You will have to make a custom spacer for the bottom of the housing because they are so short. A lot of e21 guys do the setup and they share a very similar suspension setups. You can also cut some cost on the the coilover part and by the conversion ireland engineering sells and just buy springs seperately to suit your needs.
E34 and e28 suspension can be swapped around for the most part. People have fitted the NEX coilvers designed for an e34 to an e28 no problem. If you can cut and weld its not hard to make something work
If you are interested in building your own shortened housing setup then you can run vw mk1 front inserts(there are others that will work too i believe.. You will have to make a custom spacer for the bottom of the housing because they are so short. A lot of e21 guys do the setup and they share a very similar suspension setups. You can also cut some cost on the the coilover part and by the conversion ireland engineering sells and just buy springs seperately to suit your needs.
E34 and e28 suspension can be swapped around for the most part. People have fitted the NEX coilvers designed for an e34 to an e28 no problem. If you can cut and weld its not hard to make something work
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