Re: HD VS Sport Shocks

["Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Don.

When I replaced the stock springs/shocks/bars on my E30 318i, I spoke 
with Bilstein about the choice of HD or Sport shocks/struts.  I was 
installing Eibach Pro-Kit springs and wanted to put the best matched 
Bilstein shock/strut with them.  The guy at Bilstein told me that, for 
my application, that the stock HD and Sport shocks/struts use the same 
valving. The difference between them is that the Sport shock/strut is 
shorter, and is designed to compress to a smaller length before it hits 
the internal compression limits.

He also said that there is the possibility of bottoming out and damaging 
the HD shock/strut when using shorter springs, and that it would be 
considered damage not covered by the lifetime warranty.

That was enough to convince me to put on the Sport shocks/struts.

- -rb

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>Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:46:24 -0500 
>From: dstevenson <dstevenson@domain.elided>
>Subject: HD VS Sport Shocks 
>
>Hi
>
>
>I was reading through the threads about this topic and there was allot 
said,
>but I did not see one important point.
>
>If you are going to use the sport (shorter) shocks, you really need to 
mate
>these with shorter springs. Failure to do this will give you problems 
with
>shock travel(like in up and down) and handling.
>
>My experience has been (on E30 cars) that Bilstein HDs are fine with 
the
>stock springs (ride height stayed the same). When I started to do more 
track
>work I moved to Bilstein sports with Eibach competition (shorter 
springs).
>This combo lowered the car about 1.5".  I think most tuners out there 
will
>agree with this logic.


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