I had my passenger side front strut mount crack on me last week after hitting a hole in one of my towns awesome roads, they suck at keeping on top of potholes, but this one was like 8 inches deep ! So now i need a new strut mount, i'm just wondering, the factory ones are made of aluminum, the kmacs are made of steel. How do the kmacs hold up ? also i have koni yellow adjustables, with a bigger rod diameter than stock. Which Kmac part number is for me ?

KMACS are crap. Buy fixed plates with oem mounts from Dinan or Ireland (if they have them).

What was your experience with them ? They break ? Sheer ? I just want to know if there is something out there beefier than the factory mount. Its aluminum, i want steel .

Why do you say they're crap? I ran them and they were good for me. I switched to gc's race unit because I wanted to run more than 1.75 degrees of camber and that was as much as I could get with the kmacs.

On the M3 I bought the actual steel around the urethane failed. :eek: A friend has seen multiple failures on E31's and E24's.

Usually it is is the urethane itself that fails. Honestly, I have never heard of an e34 strut mount failing like you have described. I run stock ones on my M5 with thousands of track miles. The steel dinan camber plate may help reinforce the stock mount as it is between the mount and shock tower.

I'd buy the GC ones.. Not THAT much more and one of the best on the market for our cars.

But you will have straight metal from the spring unless they sell their "hybrid" for our cars. Which it appears they now do:

http://www.ground-control-store.com/products/description.php/II=744

Look under the options paragraph.

But you will have straight metal from the spring unless they sell their "hybrid" for our cars. Which it appears they now do:

http://www.ground-control-store.com/products/description.php/II=744

Look under the options paragraph.


complete kit now huh.... and i am currently running their camber plates.