Steve's Land Raft

I'm waiting for the `Fitting Bilstein's ruined my life' quote. I know 3 people who use Bilsteins on cars and all have been happy and their vehicles have worked well, however these were not Land Rovers. The unsprung weight on Landys is huge, therefore good dampers are vital to good performance. Back in 2000 I sorted out an R8Gordini for a friend, which sort of turned into a full rebuild, the shocks were ancient Bilsteins which I took off and tried for dead-spots, there were none, so they went back on with my choice of springs and it was a real sweet handling car, which felt great on the road. The Dampers were getting on for 25 years old back then, it's still working today, so that's definitely one up for them. Next up a Mk2 Escort (nuff said) third was a Porsche 911 which had Proflex 3 way adjustable on it. This was seen to not be in the spirit of Historic Motorsport rules!! The owner changed it to Bilstein non adjustable and said it felt better, his lap times improved for certain. Possibly there was so much adjust ability in the proflex shocks he had not found the sweet spot.
I have used Koni, Leda/AVO and currently run custom AVO in the Dauph which adjust seperately for bump and rebound, part of the reason for my choice was they are/were all re-buildable and re-valvable, so Accident damage aside they never need replacing
I Always hoped that Bilstein would reintroduce the R8G/A110 shocks, but they never have, so perhaps this is influencing my decision to finally get them on a vehicle of mine.
Having checked the rates it seems that the Britpart yellow rear springs are 285lbs/in compared to the Lowered springs 245 lb/in spring, so there's the prime suspect. The higher the springrate the better the damper has to be, to properly control it.
Still hoping for suggestions on the headcloth as the replacement cost of it would buy me a complete set of springs and dampers......