Experiment: Evo Bilsteins into the front of a W201.
The green bits are the leftovers from the cheap and nasty Chinabay BMW coilovers.
Yellow bits are the Evo Bilsteins.
Photo collection is incomplete but should be enough to give you the idea.
First step is to modify the lower mount to suit the MB upright. (Lousy photo - note the cut in the lower mount, spaced out with a stack of washers).
Then tack the Evo leg into the Chinabay leg. And discover that it goes very close to /hits on the spring mount, depending on where the camber is set.
This is at full droop. The strut moves away from the spring as the suspension compresses, but hasn’t moved away enough before the step (at the top of the green leg) solidly hits the spring mount.
Cutting away the green leg gives more clearance.…but not quite enough.
I think that if don’t wind in too much negative camber then it will be OK, but am not fully satisfied with this as a solution.
Obvious other option is to trim the spring seat, which I would be happy to do …. except these are destined for the 190E in the hope that Group Nd historic class actually gets up, and it is likely that they won’t allow body mods like that.
