amgalex

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

503C43 ////AMG

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.

E55_GT3wheels

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.

amgalex

Without lowering the car would antiroll bar help?

503C43 ////AMG

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...

amgalex

Hmm
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

503C43 ////AMG

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.

amgalex

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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

armaniE55

+1
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

amgalex

I got maybe 18k on Belsteins HD ,new enough for me
I love to experiment though so maybe before changing the springs, I might try the spacers aproach

armaniE55

Haha experimenting.. that's why we are in the game right lol Try it.. You should be the first.

Keep us posted

Armani

*18k yup that's still pretty new