Anyone have an ALL Dinan suspension?

[fred318is]

Got the Dinan sways on, got the Dinan springs sitting in my garage and now I'm looking at shocks/struts. Seems that I have 3 options....

1.) Stay with OE Boge/Sachs. (not valved to match springs)
2.) Get a sport strut/shock ala Bilstein (i've heard they're harsh)
3.) Fork over the cash and get the setup that matches the springs, etc...Konis from Dinan.

I want to spend my money correctly the first time and I don't want to mix and match. Only seems logical to get the Dinan match, but man they're pricey.

Can anyone attest to an all Dinan setup?

BTW, I have a '95 318is with only the Dinan sways installed at this time. I'm also wearing the 328 sport wheels (16's)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[SG_M3]

why not just get a set of koni sa, I hate to break it to you but Dinan's koni aren't specially valved.

[fred318is]

You sound knowledgable about it...how do you know?

[SG_M3]

A guy that used to work for one of the 2 koni rebuild center and a bmw race team said they are the same, others have said this also.

[fred318is]

Very interesting. So you're saying that a standard sport valved Koni would work just the same? I'll have to look into this a bit more.

[SG_M3]

yes they will work the same.

[STAGER328]

Sean is the man to talk to about suspension!