thanks larry.

is this a simple replacement process? i.e. is it just undoing the upper nuts from the struts in the front and the shocks in the rear, undoing the lower bolts, and swapping in the new components for the old ones? the upper strut mount in the engine bay is part of the car right? i simply undo the bolt from the piston rod, pull out the strut, and slide in the bilstein sport? some of the posts that i searched on this forum seem to hint that i need to take out this strut mount.