I got these installed this weekend and wow the ride quality was enhanced greatly along will adding tons of extra shock travel. I have been in the process of swapping over from short arm to long arm and wanted to get Bilsteins, but was unable to find them in the length I required. I gave these a shot and I'm not disappointed. I'm unsure how good they are compared to Bilstein, what I can tell you is they are bounds and leaps ahead of ProComp ES1000's that were on the Jeep. I'm at 5" of lift long arm with 35's. I used PN M9587 which is 16.7 compressed and 28.5" extended.