MS6 BC Racing Coils

[smandrews]

Hey everyone!

Question for all my MS6 friends - is anyone running with the BC Racing Coilovers and have pictures they could share of the ride height?

I have H&R Lowering springs installed now, and I like the look, but now that I am stationed in England the roads really don't appreciate me being so low... The speed humps here are killing me... Like an idiot I left the stock springs in storage in the states and can't get to them for the next few years.

I need something that brings my ride height up some, and I saw the BC coils, but is there a different setup I should look at? I read through the sticky's but its hard for me to visualize the ride height without some pictures of peoples setups.

Thanks everyone for the help!

[PreyStayShun]

Did you think about ride quality before posting this?

Go OEM springs or bust (based on your description of road quality), plus it will be cheaper.

[smandrews]

The roads aren't of poor quality, in fact for the most part they are amazing, they just have speed humps all over the place. So I am really looking for something (as far as ride height goes) that is between stock and the H&R lowering springs.

Of course ride quality is something to consider too, but honestly it doesn't concern me as much as scraping the top of these humps. There are 8 sets of them in just the 3 miles from my house to the base where I work... But they are different than speed bumps in the states, as long as you are far enough off the ground you barely have to slow down.



The only reason I was looking at coils was to kill two birds really, the drivers side rear shock is starting to give up, and a small crack is developing in the passenger side front as well. If there is a better spring/shock setup that will work then I would be more than happy with that too. Its my DD first, not a race car, but there are about a dozen tracks within an hour of my house that have track days constantly so when it warms up next spring I do hope to track it a few times.

[Neverlift]

There are no spring options for the MS6 worth purchasing that put you in the middle of H&R & OEM. Autoexe makes a set of springs that fit that bill, but are $600. Pairing those with a set of Bilstein B6's for around $450 would be the way to go. I have seen OEM springs for sale on MSF for under $80 shipped. You could remove a coil yourself and is exactly what I plan on doing.

[Tibu]

I believe the BC Racing coils are not the best out there for this platform in terms of durability and effectiveness of adjustment, i.e. when put on a shock dyno, the adjustments did jack shit to the performance of the shocks. When I was searching for springs, it seemed that the consensus was that the H&R coils were the ones to go with if you didn't want to slam the car. The H&R coils use Bilstein shocks, so that is definitely a huge plus in my book.

Have a looksie at this thread over at 6club: H7R vs BC coils