Coilover conversion time!

[ill4noreason]

Nice write up. Car looks sweet. I just ordered my gc kit. I have a set of bilstien sports with h&r races on the car currently. but I am going to put konis on with the gc coilover kit hopefully to make it a stiffer ride and more low. I went with 450 front 750 rear rates.

[Hey-U]

Car looks good, really good.

[iamsam]

looks good, but of I was to do this, I would have to shorten the strut tubes and get shorter inserts. I heard somewhere in passing that iX front inserts are shorter by a few inches. Then again, I am on 15s, and they need alot of low.

[James Crivellone]

Does it bother you a tad that your badass mtech2 vert his nicer suspension than the fucking RACECAR :-p

[!kid]

hey Corvallis do you know the length of your front springs? i am working on my coil-over set at the moment.

[shEck3lls0]

How much did you cut off of the strut tubes before welding on the included GC perch or d-ring that comes with the kit? I am about to do this and I want to know how much I should cut off so I have a good range of adjust-ability with my kit. And im kinda confused on the removal of the bumpstops. Please inform at your will. Thanks.

[VicSkimmr]

I would leave the rear as is or even lower it a bit. The low rear arches are one of the things that makes e30s what they are, embrace it :) I personally think it looks wrong to have huge amounts of rake, there's a happy middle ground in there somewhere.

Looks awesome though

[CorvallisBMW]

looks good, but of I was to do this, I would have to shorten the strut tubes and get shorter inserts. I heard somewhere in passing that iX front inserts are shorter by a few inches. Then again, I am on 15s, and they need alot of low.

I have no idea about iX inserts, but I wouldn't dare cut the strut tubes with off-the-shelf bilstien sports. Thy can't handle it.

Does it bother you a tad that your badass mtech2 vert his nicer suspension than the fucking RACECAR :-p

No, not really :giggle:

The racecar is badass because it's a fucking RACECAR!

hey Corvallis do you know the length of your front springs? i am working on my coil-over set at the moment.

Whatever GC sells... 6in i think?

How much did you cut off of the strut tubes before welding on the included GC perch or d-ring that comes with the kit? I am about to do this and I want to know how much I should cut off so I have a good range of adjust-ability with my kit. And im kinda confused on the removal of the bumpstops. Please inform at your will. Thanks.

I didn't cut them at all.

I would leave the rear as is or even lower it a bit. The low rear arches are one of the things that makes e30s what they are, embrace it :) I personally think it looks wrong to have huge amounts of rake, there's a happy middle ground in there somewhere.

Looks awesome though

Thanks!!

[shEck3lls0]

I guess what I meant to say is, how low did you weld the included GC perch?

[CorvallisBMW]

I guess what I meant to say is, how low did you weld the included GC perch?

stock perch height

[gmyers395]

Where did you get the door handles?

[Rsully70sev]

awesome car man.

[CorvallisBMW]

Where did you get the door handles?

There's been a group buy going on for months

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=193910