Bilstein B6 Damptronic shocks - Initial review

[noemon]

Originally Posted by apollo

For anyone interested Larkspeed on ebay are doing £60 per shock discount with code SHOP4LESS. You would need to order each item separately to get £60 of each. But comes in at £1358 for all 4. Code lasts to 14/06/21

Give Suspension Secrets a call and they will beat it.

[apollo]

Originally Posted by noemon

Give Suspension Secrets a call and they will beat it.

No they wont, over £2k from them

[M4UFO]

I've had a set of B6 installed in April and the ride improved a lot. Am on 20mm lowering springs but I gained about 1-1.5'' in height on the front suspension due to the B6 being longer than the stock struts. Thinking about 30mm springs now.

[chipper1]

Originally Posted by M4UFO

I've had a set of B6 installed in April and the ride improved a lot. Am on 20mm lowering springs but I gained about 1-1.5'' in height on the front suspension due to the B6 being longer than the stock struts. Thinking about 30mm springs now.

I gained 1.5 inch on the front also looks like shit this is with eibach lowering springs. I don't know what to do cause i seen a few cars on here that have this combo and aren't near as high in the front as mine same parts????

I am just pissed

[M3SQRD]

Originally Posted by M4UFO

I've had a set of B6 installed in April and the ride improved a lot. Am on 20mm lowering springs but I gained about 1-1.5'' in height on the front suspension due to the B6 being longer than the stock struts. Thinking about 30mm springs now.

The B6 damper is a high nitrogen gas pressure monotube damper which creates a lifting force due to the pressure acting on the valve stack assembly. High gas pressure is required in monotube dampers to prevent cavitation in the hydraulic fluid and, thus, minimizing damper performance loss and/or characteristics.

[krusir]

B6 come with no dust boot in my order. It seems some other B6 package(for other car, maybe) did come with blue dust boot. It is mono tube (like inverted normal shock), so the top seal is actually less chance to get oil leak since there is no oil in the outer tube itself.
Do I use the original dust boot? Or install without dust boot (I guess it will look sexier without the boot).

[f30phntm]

Originally Posted by domino_z

B6 is firmer in initial travel in comfort, and slightly softer in sport

The change bw comfort and sport isn't that big of a gap with the b6, so you can even run them in sport if you want

On our typical bumpy b and c roads it's about as firm as oe sachs but much more composed and far less crash, it's even less prone to crash than the tractives were in comfort, and I think that's the extra ~20mm of travel at work

The trick to the tractives is running them in sport, that's where the dampener magic is, comfort really is just for street driving, they were right on limit of being too soft in comfort on a bumpy country road

No question the tractives were more comfortable, the b6 feel like an oe sachs dampener with more travel and better dampening towards end of stroke

Did a couple hundred km today, they are starting to feel better, and that initial firmness in travel is softening off still, but just like the tractives, you're still at the mercy of a mcpherson strut front end and 30 series tyre

I think with 19s and 35 series sidewall you'd be perfectly happy with the b6 - meatier tyre would prob fill the guards in more too

Hello sir, I'm considering picking up that exact setup. What's your thoughts on it today, should I opt for something else, maybe the B16 or B4s? (Only considering B4 because I have HR VTF HAS Springs right now)