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Originally Posted by Pepscobra
Hi Brett, maybe this is a difficult question to answer easily, but how do you go about 'tuning' a shock to a particular spring exactly?
Do you do it on the car? Or on a jig of some kind?
Cheers.
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Hi Pepscorbra,
Probably the most difficult question to answer and could write for 40 pages but don't have the time.
It's really seat of the pants to tune dampers and the same everywhere around the worlds car manufacturers. So many things, like the primary control, or the way the cars breathes down the road in it's vertical displacements. The lateral head toss, Continuous bumps where the energy can build or single impacts. Initial turn in to the corner, steady state in the middle of the corner balance, brake and turns, weight shift under brakes and power. So many things are effected by the damper in transient direction changes and are all tunable with the damper and how well you can make a change to the damping forces without making something else worse. Little things like making an impact feel the same front to rear as the bump goes through the car. Keeping the car supple while the body stays flat over a bad roads with undulations. We perform so many tests and so much to consider when tuning and to have the fun factor, so you want to turn around and go through that corner again!! Strike through to the bumper is also very important and is part of the tuning so even on big bumps, the car has a good level of control to the end of travel. We have so many options for tuning the Shockworks dampers without placing excessive loads on the sealing system and other components. The experience with how to do this took literally years with so many feelings to understand at the same time. Tiring but very rewarding!!
I hope this helps but is difficult to explain in detail mate.
Cheers
Brett