Re: m3 springs with what shocks? (archive)

I have been running the HDs and e30 M3 set-up for almost seven months now and I have had no problems bottoming out the shocks tto speak of. My tires hit the wheel wells long before the shocks bottom out, so I don't know how the internal bump stops could have a part in your friend's "speed bump" test.The HDs are the moderate of the two, the Sports are the stiffer, according to Bilstein.
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doc

So you're saying your tires hit the wheel wells
long before the shocks bottom out? And this is
with M3 springs? How is that even possible?
My car with M3 springs and Sports never got close
to hitting the tire on anything, even when
autocrossing on big race tires. I think you're
wrong about your tires hitting before the shocks
bottom out. Or it could be that your IX acts
a lot differently than a real E30 since it has
such a different front suspension setup.
According to Bilstein, the Sports are 3% to 4%
stiffer than the HDs. The average driver would
never know the difference. My pal is Scott
Miller, knower of all things E30 and quite
a good driver. If he says his shocks are
bottoming out, they're bottoming out. I've
heard this from M3 owners on the M3 mailing
list who used HDs with their stock springs
so he's not alone.

Randy

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