PSA: Think twice before lowering your car

[tomasidris]

Those spring rates are perfect for the street. Raise the car all around and add a front hotchkis bar on medium. Leave the rear sway bar. Adjust your camber and toe and the car will feel much better.

Sounds good, Ive been trying to order the hotchkis bar for the better part of a year now and they’ve been backordered every website I’ve tried ordering from. One even said hotchkis discontinued their front bars for the e46 m3s. Best alternative if I can’t get my hands on one?

[Tbonem3]

Best alternative if I can’t get my hands on one?

OE CSL
Ground control

Those 2 above and hotchkis are all tubular (lighter weight). Ground Control has another level of adjustment that most other's don't as well (better for fine tuning on track behavior imo) There are cheaper bars that work perfectly well like the ones from Eibach (29mm) or Turner/H&R (30mm), but they're solid thus heavy.