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KW v3 Coilover Fitment For 2019/2020 M2C
I've been searching around for coilovers & it seems like the KW v3's are held in high regard for a first upgrade. However all of the listings I've seen only mention applications for 2016-2018 M2's.
Even on KW's main site, they don't even give you results for KW v3's if you select a 2019/2020 model M2C (it only comes up with the v4 variant). IND's website seems to display the v3's as an option for the 2020 model, but then when you click on it, there's a table at the bottom that says it's only compatible with 2016-2018 M2's. Am I missing something here? Are these just oversights from the websites? I'm assuming the stock suspension is more or less the same between the two models, & the weight difference is only ~200lbs. Not sure what other factors make a big impact on coilover fitment between those two. Is anyone here running v3's on their M2C? Any issues or oddities with it?
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KW kit that fits an M2 will also fit an M2C
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Reason being that aluminum, steel, and titanium all have the same stiffeness to weight ratio. So the M2 steel brace is therefore stiffer since it weighs more. What the M2C aluminum brace loses, it makes up for in the addition of the carbon fiber brace. Carbon fiber has a much higher stiffeness to weight ratio. So you end up with something which I assume is the same or stiffer than the M2 steel, but much lighter weight. This is why I don't recommend people who convert the M2 to the M2C bracing to skip running the carbon strut bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_modulus |
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Alloy brace only definitely helped front end response more so than oem firewall braces.
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