van manen variant coilovers - would this interest anyone?

sayanthan · 7th August 2012, 09:40

for those of you who don't know, van manen is a chassis engineer by trade and works at prodrive as well as doing various pieces of work for other oem manufacturers. i had an informal chat with him about developing a coilover with front camber plates for the e39 m5, he has direct access to parts from bilstein and ohlins so this would be to a custom spec and aimed at "fast" road cars that do occasional track work and specifically cars putting out more power than standard. ie: 450bhp+ as many of the aftermarket choices out there are not optimal within this specific group of vehicles. i'm aware that you can get custom spring rates on ground control coilovers but ideally the damper should be valved to suit, and with suspension being a bit of black art it's best left to an expert.....who better than a suspension engineer by trade? he's said he might be tempted if 4-5 people are genuinely interested , -this would make a project like this feasible. if you've seen his manifolds and the time and effort he put in to those and the quality of the end product......you know this will be decent! development time would potentially take 6 months. he's totally mad about bmw e39 m5's himself and drives them regularly so he knows these cars very very well.

would this tempt anyone?

M5 London · 7th August 2012, 11:58

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Originally Posted by sayanthan

if you've seen his manifolds and the time and effort he put in to those and the quality of the end product......you know this will be decent!

Yeah I'd have to agree !!

I saw these yesterday....are these going onto your car, you lucky git ?? !!!

yellowgixxer · 7th August 2012, 13:28

I think they may be mine

Pretty, aren't they?

SB

sayanthan · 7th August 2012, 16:16

Sadly not

there's a 50% deposit on those

bimmerule · 7th August 2012, 17:41

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Originally Posted by sayanthan

would this tempt anyone?

I'm in the process of piecing together a suspension setup for street and light track duty (~6 to 10 track days peryear). I'm currently looking at Ground Control coilovers with 530/470? springs or Bilstein B8 + Intrax + GC camber plates, but having a hell of a hard time sourcing those springs.

If the VM setup offers any comparable advantages, I'd be interested. My timeline is March 2013, shortly before next DE/TT season. My car is stock but I have plans to bring it up to ~460HP once the chassis tuning is complete.

sayanthan · 7th August 2012, 19:33

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Originally Posted by bimmerule

I'm in the process of piecing together a suspension setup for street and light track duty (~6 to 10 track days peryear). I'm currently looking at Ground Control coilovers with 530/470? springs or Bilstein B8 + Intrax + GC camber plates, but having a hell of a hard time sourcing those springs.

If the VM setup offers any comparable advantages, I'd be interested. My timeline is March 2013, shortly before next DE/TT season. My car is stock but I have plans to bring it up to ~460HP once the chassis tuning is complete.

PM me your details, and depending on numbers I can let you know and give more details...on the other hand if you just need intrax springs...? Speak to evolve or RK? Bilstein charge a fixed amount per damper if you ever needed to re-valve, and I guess if you needed to change the intrax springs you can check the rates/length and go from there

yellowgixxer · 7th August 2012, 21:39

Sy, they're still pretty even with your deposit on them

Mine are there somewhere though...

SB

sayanthan · 7th August 2012, 21:48

i know..!.......there are 2 boxes at cpc....yours is unopened..........

yellowgixxer · 7th August 2012, 22:33