Ways to reduce body roll on w210 e55....
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Ways to reduce body roll on w210 e55....
My car is 2000 e55
New Bilstein Shocks, standard ride height, standard wheels/tires.
Body roll on these cars is pretty substantial,
Im not looking for 911 like handling but wouldn't mind to make it handle a little better in corners.
Please post your experiences with this issue and correction methods
New Bilstein Shocks, standard ride height, standard wheels/tires.
Body roll on these cars is pretty substantial,
Im not looking for 911 like handling but wouldn't mind to make it handle a little better in corners.
Please post your experiences with this issue and correction methods
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My car is 2000 e55
New Bilstein Shocks, standard ride height, standard wheels/tires.
Body roll on these cars is pretty substantial,
Im not looking for 911 like handling but wouldn't mind to make it handle a little better in corners.
Please post your experiences with this issue and correction methods
New Bilstein Shocks, standard ride height, standard wheels/tires.
Body roll on these cars is pretty substantial,
Im not looking for 911 like handling but wouldn't mind to make it handle a little better in corners.
Please post your experiences with this issue and correction methods
Springs directly affect body roll where as the shocks/struts affect dampening. In essence springs have more to do with performance handling and shocks/struts have more to do with quality of ride. That is not to say that one doesn't affect the other but if you are looking for performance handling you should be looking into a new set of springs. Not only will they be stiffer, which will reduce the body roll, but they will lower your center of gravity further improving your cornering ability.
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I had a 2000 E55 and sold it years ago. Recently bought back a 01 e55 with just 45k miles on her.
On my first E55, i did blistein sport shocks and H&R springs. It lowered slightly more than 1 inch. This made an incredible difference in the handling. And looked perfect - not to low not to high. Just perfect. You'd be shocked at how much better the car handles around corners with that set up.
On my first E55, i did blistein sport shocks and H&R springs. It lowered slightly more than 1 inch. This made an incredible difference in the handling. And looked perfect - not to low not to high. Just perfect. You'd be shocked at how much better the car handles around corners with that set up.
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I think H&R makes a roll bar that is larger than the stock roll bar but I think it is only 1mm larger and I can't imagine that would make a significant difference.
it sounds like you are not interested in slamming your ride, neither was I. What I did was get lowering springs and then get the largest spring pads I could (#5 in front and #4 in the rear) This turned a 1.4" drop into a .6" drop, it is lowered but my wheels are not up in the wheel well and there is no rubbing even with rims and tires that are larger than stock. Of course I have a C43 and you have an E55 but the concept is the same...
it sounds like you are not interested in slamming your ride, neither was I. What I did was get lowering springs and then get the largest spring pads I could (#5 in front and #4 in the rear) This turned a 1.4" drop into a .6" drop, it is lowered but my wheels are not up in the wheel well and there is no rubbing even with rims and tires that are larger than stock. Of course I have a C43 and you have an E55 but the concept is the same...
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I think H&R makes a roll bar that is larger than the stock roll bar but I think it is only 1mm larger and I can't imagine that would make a significant difference.
it sounds like you are not interested in slamming your ride, neither was I. What I did was get lowering springs and then get the largest spring pads I could (#5 in front and #4 in the rear) This turned a 1.4" drop into a .6" drop, it is lowered but my wheels are not up in the wheel well and there is no rubbing even with rims and tires that are larger than stock. Of course I have a C43 and you have an E55 but the concept is the same...
it sounds like you are not interested in slamming your ride, neither was I. What I did was get lowering springs and then get the largest spring pads I could (#5 in front and #4 in the rear) This turned a 1.4" drop into a .6" drop, it is lowered but my wheels are not up in the wheel well and there is no rubbing even with rims and tires that are larger than stock. Of course I have a C43 and you have an E55 but the concept is the same...
how about clamping 2 coils together on stock springs?
although this method would lower the car
maybe some sort of spacers in between 2 coils and by this stiffening up the setup
Last edited by amgalex; Jan 16, 2012 at 12:31 AM.
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I wouldn't suggest that at all. If you are truly dead set on maintaining the stock ride height I would look into some custom coils. That would probably be really expensive, why not go with the lowering springs? Lowering your car will give you better handling as well as slightly better gas mileage as your car will have a lower profile.
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I wouldn't suggest that at all. If you are truly dead set on maintaining the stock ride height I would look into some custom coils. That would probably be really expensive, why not go with the lowering springs? Lowering your car will give you better handling as well as slightly better gas mileage as your car will have a lower profile.
looks like spacers have been used by the racer community to improve and fine tune handling
very interesting read
http://www.ehow.com/info_12215692_st...l-spacers.html
I wouldn't mind lowering maybe just a bit, not looking forward to scraping my bumper though
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I wouldn't suggest that at all. If you are truly dead set on maintaining the stock ride height I would look into some custom coils. That would probably be really expensive, why not go with the lowering springs? Lowering your car will give you better handling as well as slightly better gas mileage as your car will have a lower profile.
Wsup bud..
spacers eh.. not so much.. Take the above 503c43 avenue approach. Go with new springs/shocks. (you stated shocks are new, how new?) I wouldn't go with the sports Bilstein shocks as they are very,very aggressive for DD, the current stock ones are regular HD shocks. Which is what I went with. Pair that up that with a good set of high performance tires and your good to go.
*also I need to change my sig I went back to the stock pads from #1
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Keep us posted
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*18k yup that's still pretty new
