Originally posted by CBREEZ
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I received the rear suspension from BWS, but the height adjuster was missing so I'm still waiting for that one to arrive. As I am going to use the front struts from the E92 I had to replace the camber plates. But this wasn't straight forward when combining this with the Electronic Damper Control (EDC). The EDC comes with a shorter top nut for the shock shaft to free threads to install the EDC. Due to the design on the E46 camber plates the spacer below the bearing is longer, which eats up the threads to mount the EDC onto.
E90 Spacer - E46 spacer - regular nut - shorter nut:
I tried to use the short spacer, but 6mm space between spring seat and bearing is uncomfortably little. Left is with short spacer, right is standard E92 setup:
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After some thinking I decided to install the E9x bearing into the E46 top plate. This increases the ride height by 10mm, but this turned out to be a good thing later on. In the stage of assembly:
Bilstein coilovers vs BWS coilovers:
I installed them with the same height as on the E92, to compare. And wow, it is tucking hard on jack stands..
Raised them 35mm and installed them again. I think this height will be good with the new 18" wheels, but I will probably do some more adjustments later. These 245/35-19s are a bit meaty.
I also installed the rear shocks and springs temporarily onto the Bilstein adjuster, but will replace this and lower the rear once the adjuster arrives. Hopefully next week.
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