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Old 15-05-2012, 09:12 AM   #1
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Whats the consensus of KW Clubsports for the CSL?

Thinking of changing my Nitrons, still not happy with them at all, rather than spending more money on them I may sell them and put that towards a different setup.

Had the KW V3's on my old E46 M3 and they were brilliant for road driving if a little limited on the track, but still a overall they were excellent.

Are the CS kits any good?

How do they adjust? do they have a twister knob on the top and a separate adjuster with a pin at the bottom like the V3's?

Any views on the CS kits?
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Old 15-05-2012, 10:42 AM   #2
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I have KW Clubsport and have found them very good indeed when set up correctly. I have the older kit with seperate adjusters.

The newer versions have the easier single adjuster knob i believe.
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Old 15-05-2012, 11:44 AM   #3
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Still not sorted then?
Did Simpson not look into the knocking?
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My radical idea is to leave alone and stick with stock suspension...
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Still not sorted then?
Did Simpson not look into the knocking?
Fraid not Alex.

They did, but could find nothing wrong, so rather than throwing more money at it i'll get something else and cut my losses.

Strangely the rear ride height on the Nitrons, they couldn't get it much below stock height, so the car looks / feels unbalanced as the front is lower than the rears.
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Fraid not Alex.

They did, but could find nothing wrong, so rather than throwing more money at it i'll get something else and cut my losses.

Strangely the rear ride height on the Nitrons, they couldn't get it much below stock height, so the car looks / feels unbalanced as the front is lower than the rears.
no such issues with my old NTR Track set of Nitrons - were yours an older set as i know couple of years ago early Nitron users had some trouble getting them to set up properly.
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Toby seems a shame to start from scratch again. I really would get in touch with Nitron and insist they take a look at them on the car FOC. Something doesn't sound right and sure they will be to sort if anyone, unless it's car related but doesn't sound like it.

Spoken to previous owner to see if he had any similar issues?

Alternatively your more than welcome to come down to me and compare like for like and set up on mine.
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ONeill has Nitron sport and no such issues as far as I know. I'm still betting this is an old set of Nitron. LeonB had a car on Nitron back in 2010 and suffered big ime on set up
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My radical idea is to leave alone and stick with stock suspension...
you sound like my missus on email this morning
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Old 15-05-2012, 12:51 PM   #10
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no such issues with my old NTR Track set of Nitrons - were yours an older set as i know couple of years ago early Nitron users had some trouble getting them to set up properly.
Those NTR Track ones you had were in a different league to these ones

Could well be, according to Nitron they were manufactured in 2010, I see they have revised their range recently, it's a shame as they are a nice bit of kit.

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Toby seems a shame to start from scratch again. I really would get in touch with Nitron and insist they take a look at them on the car FOC. Something doesn't sound right and sure they will be to sort if anyone, unless it's car related but doesn't sound like it.

Spoken to previous owner to see if he had any similar issues?

Alternatively your more than welcome to come down to me and compare like for like and set up on mine.
That's not a bad shout Alex, I might call them in a moment, I don't think it's the car as Simpsons had a good look over it and checked my subframe etc the other week.

He said they were fine, but then he was bound to say that really.

Would you be able to take me a side profile shot of your car? My rears are a lot higher than I expected, i.e. I can get nearly 2 fingers into the gap between the wheel and the wheel arch and we all know wheel arch gap is a crime!

I did notice that my left adjuster had no room left for adjustment, where the right hand side had a good 7mm of adjustment left.
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