sounds nice Tony...on my 93 940t (300k miles) I
did the IPD upper and lower chassis braces, the
stiffer belstein (sp?) struts and a wide radial...the
940 handles like its on rails now...its a nice 4 door
set up....
On Sep 29, 2:02*pm, Tony <n...@nospamplease.com> wrote:
> just thought I'd share my suspension upgrade experiences.
>
> 1995 940 2.3 SE Turbo estate
>
> I needed to replace the front shocks and top bushes as one had popped
> out hitting the bonnet. * I already had Bilstein sport shocks in the
> back and Ventura standard springs for a saloon (resulting in a
> uppointing front, a mistake from ECP).
>
> After 2 failed attempts to deliver the top bushes by ECP (aftermarket
> parts) with bearings or in a decent quality they eventually delivered
> the correct parts. *On the other hand Europerformance provided the
> expensive front Bilsteins and all round Cobra springs (progressive,
> uprated and lowered by 40mm) quickly and efficiently. *I would recommend
> them but noticed their T&C seems to infringe the Sale of Goods act,
> saying that all warranties are with the manufacturer (a common web
> company problem these days).
>
> The Bilsteins are impressive units with the shaft about 95% the width of
> the outer body, and very stiff.
>
> The replacement work was straight forward. *On the fronts I used a pry
> bar/jemmy to seperate the bottom ball joint and plumbers shifters to
> undo the shock retainging bolt and do up the new one. *Otherwise very
> similar to 340/360 shock replacement. *The rears the main difficulty was
> getting the jacking points onto axle stands as you are lowering the
> suspension while trying to lower the car onto the axle stands. *The car
> tends to move on the front wheels (maybe some wheel chocks would help
> next time), and the axle stands tend to tip over as the weight transfers
> onto them. *The rear spring retaining bolt was difficult as usual
> needing a deep socket and the stud tends to come out as the end and bolt
> are rusted together.
>
> now the performance;
> The new springs and shocks are impressive for fast driving, this is now
> one of the tightest cars I have ever driven, and it really takes the
> corners. *I havn't been brave enough to really try the limits yet, needs
> return of the GY F1 to the rear, which is under respray for
> corrosion/leakage *the Pirelli on it now from the spare is not as good.
> * Having said that I have over commited on speed once and been badly
> positioned on the road comming up to a corner and met another car
> suddenly, the car now responds immediately to swerves and corrections
> without large tail slides.
>
> The down side is the car is definately not a practical load carrier now
> (unless the load is not fragile), and loaded up with people does scrape
> the mud flaps occasionally. *It doesn't look too low, still a reasonable
> clearance, but the progressive bit of the springs is very short,
> especially at the rear. *On dropping the car to the ground the rear
> springs are binding at the bottom (but this maybe a design intention).
> Ramps are not too bad on the entrance, but comming out it really seems
> to crash onto the road. *Previously the car was under damped and under
> sprung, but now overly so, much more than my partners 323i which I
> called a go-kart when she got it. *I would have loved this in my 20s,
> but that was some time ago.
>
> I'm thinking a more inbetween spring on rating and lowering might be a
> more reasonable compromise, anyone tried any other sports springs.
>
> --
> Tony
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