i have a 2000 328i with koni sport yellows and h&r sport springs for sport suspension (or race springs for non-sport, {same thing})
anyway, it's been a good setup and it's pretty comfortable. however i want less body roll.
-first pic is my car under full braking and turning.
-second pic shows body roll under hard turn.
too much IMO. while the car feels nice and has good handling, i want that extra step up. i DO NOT want to increase understeer. if anything i want to decrease it slightly.
i would imagine kw's came with their endlinks ... let me say that sway bar will almost certainly create more of a difference in feel than the whole coil overs system or atleast it might imho
I put on H&R from Turner and cornering is drastically improved.
Took the car cross country with my girlfriend who could care less about cornering, and she never once noticed any difference in the ride quality. Neither did I and I was critically looking. I have the sport suspension to start with and added KONI FSD's three years ago.
When you're going to all this trouble, might as well do new end links. H&R will not allow you to transfer the ones in rear because they are forced over the sway bar rubber to metal.
Front ones were replaced just because I wanted to start with new there. Especially with the extra stress induced.
So according to what i read there aren't any disadvantages?
Except the fact that they are a bit pricey.
Has they are adjustable how do you have yours set?
Meanwhile i read this:
Advantages:
-Reduced body roll during cornering.
-Adjustable front and rear understeer/oversteer (most sways are adjustable).
Disadvantages:
-Improperly installed bushings by squeak as the lubrication wears out over time.
-Improperly adjusted sway bar settings can cause poor or dangerous handling conditions (specifically too much oversteer).
-Less body roll in cornering will allow you to carry much more speed, which means your margin for error is drastically reduced and possibly beyond your limits as a driver.
Disadvantages are the cost and labor to get them there.
Kinda makes me wonder why the factory didn't put on slightly thicker bars as cost to them would have only been a few extra euros.
Cost was very reasonable for H&R at Turner. $350 for the pair.
Set the rears to mid point and the front to weakest setting. I don't think I'm perceptive enough to be able to tell the difference in which hole the link is put thru.
In theory the chart seems accurate. Again, not sure i'm worried about a notch different on my car.
When I first put on the rear bar, I drove like that for a few days to see what only a rear bar would feel like.
Car handled much better, but as I pushed it, I realized that the increased handling prowess came mostly from the rear. Car would go around corners with more flatness and stabiliiy, but as I pushed it harder, I realized the rear end was lighter than before, and if I really pushed things, I'd be seeing the rear end swing out to put me in a spin. So not a great idea to leave the car that way in case a drastic move caused the oversteer to spin me out in a corner. And that was without the new front bar even installed!
So I'm not thinking one notch is critical. I've pushed the car very hard now and it seems close to neutral for my purposes.
Front one emotionally comforting (at least it makes me feel better), but that rear one eats up valuable space that I use all the time! Difference in spirited driving would never be felt, and who ever has strut tower problems in the rear approaching the frequency of the front?
well rear seeems to be much rigid now i also in some corners car is oversteering.I have H&R Cup Kit max lowering 55mm front and 35mm rear and style 68 wheels.Bur again this is a hatchback so some thing are different in the future i will try to get also sway bars but they are very expensive about 600 usd for my car only Eibach manufactures them.
As for space there are 1 or 2 persons in the car about 97% of time includes the driver
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