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      05-11-2012, 03:49 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by The HACK View Post
I would be surprised if they did that coil-over installation right. BMW didn't put in nearly enough reinforcement to allow coil-over springs to be attached to the shock tower. The ONLY way you can run a coil-over rear on the Z4 chassis without it literally punching a hole through the back side is if you weld your cage directly to the rear shock tower and reinforce the f**k out of it, so the force from the springs are spread out onto the cage structure.
Bingo!
I've seen this attempted on other makes without proper reinforcement.
The results were not pretty.
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