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Old 02-02-2013, 01:11 PM   #9
Shockworks
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Default Re: Ford Falcon BA-FG Coilovers

Hi Rusty,

They are right about damaging the ball joints. The upper A arm can exceed it's designed angle at full bump, if the car is to low and over deflect the ball joint in the arm. This was a big thing when I was tuning at Ford and the compressed length of the damper controls this from happening. We also limit the amount travel at full bump for this reason. When the front is too low the car and steering feel gets disconected. The front also reponds better with a damper that has good response and more reactive upper bushes which was done for the GT-R spec. The upper bush has double the stiffness for that car. We have chosen to use a new top mount with a shperical bearing with no harshness as we were able to tune this out. This makes a huge improvment with off centre steering response. We also worked on the compression damping forces to control the strike through to the body when the bumper gets a hit. Our piston allows us to tune all these things differently.
Cheers
Brett
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