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So I got my car up on ramps and got under there to measure diistance from spring footing to bump stop and its less than 1/2" with the Eibachs' installed. So that's not helping the ride. OTOH what I've been able to read is bump stops are a good thing. So the question is how much to cut to clear typical travel so they are engaging only when needed. As we know, they are mounted on a hard plastic base that can't be cut and the flexible part of the bump stop is only 2", so given the car is at least 1 1/2" low, most of the stop would have to be cut off to be equivalent spacing, in which case the bump stops would be largely irrelevant and the hard plastic base would likely shatter over time.
Now that being said the travel distance of the Eibach springs is much less than the stock springs with similar compression conditions. If you look at the Eibachs with the weight of the car on them, you will see that the upper tight coils that have the rubber surrounds are completely compressed at rest. That means only the lower half of the spring is actually under load on bumps. See the attached crappy iphone picture. That's not very much spring but I guess Eibach figured that is enough.
So the question is how much bump stop to remove and if it will make any difference in the ride?
Now that being said the travel distance of the Eibach springs is much less than the stock springs with similar compression conditions. If you look at the Eibachs with the weight of the car on them, you will see that the upper tight coils that have the rubber surrounds are completely compressed at rest. That means only the lower half of the spring is actually under load on bumps. See the attached crappy iphone picture. That's not very much spring but I guess Eibach figured that is enough.
So the question is how much bump stop to remove and if it will make any difference in the ride?