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04-22-2009, 05:41 PM | #23 |
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Do it! I loved my GC's track/school kit on the old E36:
They total transformed how the car felt - granted the previous oem suspension was 'well' used prior to my install. I'd love to see the results with a Z4M cooop. |
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06-16-2009, 03:10 PM | #24 |
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Bump - So what did you do?
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06-19-2009, 01:33 PM | #25 |
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I got a new set of springs for my KW V2's from GC. Great customer service.
I'm running 450/650 on mine.
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06-19-2009, 01:43 PM | #26 |
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So now you're running fixed spring rates on the KW V2 shocks/struts? Interesting...
The only reason why I never considered KW was because none of their kits had linear springs. Not even the ClubSports!
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06-21-2009, 04:35 PM | #29 |
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400 and even 500 seem like really low spring rates for a track orientated set up.
I would have thought people would be going for something like 600 front and 800 rear ?
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07-08-2009, 11:07 AM | #30 |
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Combination of both. My car is still a daily driver with track day duties, so I can't go all out.
Some streets in Toronto are f**king brutal. Oh, and my bad, typo on my part, I'm using 400/650 springs. The KW V2's are linear in the front and progressive in the rear. Now I've got linear springs all the way around. GC sent me Eibach's for the rear with their own GC coilover perches and H&R's for the front to be used with the V2's helper springs. These springs are already a bit stiffer than what the V2's are, and going too stiff would be bad for the shocks. My goal was just to spend as little as possible and get the spring rates more in line with what I'd like out of the car.
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03-26-2010, 02:02 PM | #31 |
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Lousy luck with GC parts. First delivery had wrong camber plates installed .
Second delivery was wrong specs, party my fault. Third delivery had out-of-box failure on a weld @ strut tower stud. Three strikes. Lots of money, time and labor wasted. Immense frustration. Their phone support was good but the product just failed hard. |
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ground control parts failure.
Lousy luck with GC parts. First delivery had wrong camber plates installed .
Second delivery was wrong specs, partly my fault. Rattled as if broken. Third delivery had out-of-box failure @ strut tower stud. Three strikes. Lots of money, time and labor wasted. Immense frustration. Their phone support was good but the product just failed hard. FYI Broken strut tower stud, broke before vendor spec of 18 lb-ft. Other side was halfway gone in same location. The horseshoe piece flexes too much during install and the bolt separates from the head. IMO the allen-head recess weakens the bolt at the base. --correction, the "weld" didn't break. The stud twisted off the welded head. --- Fix involves dropping the suspension, fix/replace part, realign front end. Attachment 363301 Last edited by blender; 11-21-2012 at 10:33 PM.. |
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video from Ground Control
This is Jay from Ground Control. I was steered to this picture, and I just thought I would say that if this happened to you, we will just send you a new one at no charge.
Click here for observations about torque wrenches The weld didn't break in the picture, the stud was twisted off right at the bottom. So, I believe the broken part in the pic above is nothing to be concerned about, they are very difficult to break, and when replaced with a new piece are not a safety problem. [u2b]<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RtbsgoQieE4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RtbsgoQieE4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>[/u2b] If that link doesnt work, here is video of breaking parts in the interest of science: Jay from Ground Control email me from the link on the webpage Last edited by JM3; 03-27-2010 at 04:56 PM.. |
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I bought a set of GC coil-overs used. Prior to the installation I knew there's potential for trouble, it had appeared to me that while the prior coil-over installation was correct (in fact I knew the mechanic who installed it), the subsequent alignment, since the shop that did the original install did not have alignment rack, the guys doing the alignment had over-torqued the nut(s). So of course when I went to install the used GC kit on my car, the weld on the stud broke off. I sort of had an inkling that this was going to happen, because when I received the used kit it had appeared that one of the studs had some damaged threads. When I get the new plates in and installed, I'm going to have to leave a note with the alignment shop to make sure they PROPERLY TORQUE the strut nuts and do not use power/air tools. Sometimes inexperienced shops will use a power tool or an air tool and even an air ratchet can deliver enough torque to do some serious damage. Otherwise the GC kit was by a very far and wide margin one of the easiest suspension installs I've done. Took me about 4 leisurely hours spread over 5 days at work, including about half an hour modifying the trunk trim with a Dremel to allow access to the rear shock adjustment. |
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Good advice on power/air tools. If you're super concerned you can always hang around the shop (donuts and other goodies do wonders as well--then you're the cool guy with donuts and not the "picky guy with the BMW"). |
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Can you post a pic of what you did to get access? I have to get around to doing this next weekend and I am lookng for ideas.
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You need to go the 'competition' route for linear springs from KW. The Clubsport suspension is a street suspension.
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I found some plastic plugs from Lowe's / Home Depot that fit the hole I drilled through. You can't tell from the pics (due to the flash), but it looks like OEM. This is a pic of the passenger side looking down the hole: |
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04-05-2010, 12:28 PM | #39 |
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You don't want to see mine. I hacked away a huge part of the trim just so that I don't have to second guess. Right now the entire shock tower is exposed.
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Can you get at the adjusters with just the koni knobs or do you need some kind of extension?
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