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      11-20-2008, 04:27 PM   #1
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Ride Quality question

I have a stock 135 and I want to reduce body roll without giving up ride quality. What's the best kind of mod to achieve this? I'm not trying to track my car but as it is, it has more body roll than I like. I had an e39 M5 before this and I love the balance of stiffness and comfort it had in its setup.
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Stiffer sway bars.
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      11-21-2008, 12:41 AM   #3
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Stiffer sway bars.
^What he said
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I have a stock 135 and I want to reduce body roll without giving up ride quality. What's the best kind of mod to achieve this? I'm not trying to track my car but as it is, it has more body roll than I like. I had an e39 M5 before this and I love the balance of stiffness and comfort it had in its setup.
I've been trying to achieve the same result. The first step was to install Koni Yellow shocks with Eibach Pro Kit Springs. This set-up did reduce the body roll, but the ride was too harsh IMO. I'm going back to stock springs with the Konis and will see how that works out. I have a feeling that the lowering springs were the culprit with regard to the reduction in ride quality, but we shall see. You may want to consider going with Koni FSD shocks and keeping the stock springs. Everything that I've read indicates that the FSDs provide nearly the same performance improvements, but offer better ride quality than the stock shocks.
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