I have read through the threads I could find and I cannot find any strong opinions for, or against trimming the bumpstops.

The added travel is the obvious benefit of trimming, but I am concerned about making the handling choppy by creating a spike in spring rate when I do hit the bumpstop.

Any opinions?

My setup is spec-r's with (coming soon) rebuilt bilsteins. I use it for auto-x and street.
Thanks

 

Prob not the best idea unless recommended in your spring/coil over instructions. Some spring upgrades require it. A shop cut mine once by accident and did not tell me. Rode horrible and bottomed out quite a bit.

 

You shouldnt need to.

 

Serioulsy your talking about inches and if your that close to maxing out the enitre suspension travel you need to be more concerned with the "spike" when you fully max the travel and fully compress the piston.

 

It's not inches with Swifts...you're very very close to the bumpstops then.

I think there is a lot to gain from a shortened bumpstop. I'm not sure if a cut stock one is the answer....I'd rather a purpose designed one. The integrated dustboot makes that tough though.

- Andrew

 

I would say to not cut it.

 

I would prefer a new redesigned piece rather than cutting the bumpstop. Works is the only company i know of that makes one.

I might just keep the stop as is. The front will bottom out in tight turns or when overdriven. While I'm thinking some extra travel will improve the spring rate spike, improved driving technique should work for the time being

 

I'm running the same setup as you. I did not trim the bumpstops. I don't think I ever hit the bump stop.

I do recall the thread by GTWORKS, where they suggested to trim them a little because sometimes you might hit them and not even notice. If I was to do it over again I would trim some of it off a little.