[Isaiah5411]

I'm having my perches installed today. Will post pics as soon as I can.

[troye]

SWEEET!

[Isaiah5411]

Got the SPP front perches installed yesterday. And...

The first thing I noticed was when I sat in the car to drive away, I could see more of the road. Hard to believe, but...I was not looking for this change. It just hit me...like the front end had shrunk. A friend who drove the car said the same thing. I love this 'cause, coming from an E46, the E92 seemed a little big for me. It just got a bit smaller feeling (like my E46 did when I had it lowered).

I drove the car pretty hard the evening I picked it up so that things would settle. And they did. I took pics this morning from the same place I took before pics - coming out of my driveway - and the results are just as advertised: It is 0.5-0.6" lower (and even a little lower from the front edge of the aero front to the road).

Overall, I am happy with the results. I wanted to drop the car more but it is impractical in my area. (I'd already scraped leaving a typical driveway). As it now sits, the car has a more aggressive rake and that little drop does make a significant difference to the "trained" eye...the ones from us motorheads, who spend waaay too much money for such a minor (but really kickass) change.

***More pics tomorrow from a better (previous) location showing the drop on level ground.***

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Before:
Note: Car is at a slant coming out of driveway. This is NOT the distance from the lip to a level road.



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[troye]

Nice! Thanks for the review.

[JayP]

I believe i cant use those lowering perches on XI models right? Neither i can use em with bilstein shocks ? So i cant do nothing about havin my front so much higher than the rear

Dont take care of dirt on car it wasn't even washed, just a quick pic :P

[Isaiah5411]

You're right...not for the xi. Guess you'd have to do something like adjustable coilovers and drop the front a little more than the rear, eh?

[MBEA5T]

your car looks sick!!! thanks so much for posting pics... I'm for sure buying a set now

Originally Posted by francisomar

Not an e93 but close enough with sports springs, performance dampers and lowering front perches

[e93boy]

Originally Posted by HiHoAg

Got the SPP front perches installed yesterday. And...

The first thing I noticed was when I sat in the car to drive away, I could see more of the road. Hard to believe, but...I was not looking for this change. It just hit me...like the front end had shrunk. A friend who drove the car said the same thing. I love this 'cause, coming from an E46, the E92 seemed a little big for me. It just got a bit smaller feeling (like my E46 did when I had it lowered).

I drove the car pretty hard the evening I picked it up so that things would settle. And they did. I took pics this morning from the same place I took before pics - coming out of my driveway - and the results are just as advertised: It is 0.5-0.6" lower (and even a little lower from the front edge of the aero front to the road).

Overall, I am happy with the results. I wanted to drop the car more but it is impractical in my area. (I'd already scraped leaving a typical driveway). As it now sits, the car has a more aggressive rake and that little drop does make a significant difference to the "trained" eye...the ones from us motorheads, who spend waaay too much money for such a minor (but really kickass) change.

***More pics tomorrow from a better (previous) location showing the drop on level ground.***

Before:


After:



Before:
Note: Car is at a slant coming out of driveway. This is NOT the distance from the lip to a level road.



After:

I know this Thread is kind of old but I was wondering how your ride quality has been since you lowered the front, I was actually looking for recommendations on springs when I ran into this post. I dont like how the front is higher than the back as far as looks go on my e93, but I dont want to compromise ride quality. If the front and rear were even height I would be happy, btw I dont know what the "Perches" are and not sure if I have to purchase something or do I have to remove something existing from car?? Sorry such a long post im a Newb and no access to PM yet..