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Ohlins Road and Track Install and Review
Interviews with Essex and Ohlins

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We cover install setup and alignment of the Ohlins Road and Track kit.
Then drive 800 miles to Ohlins to tour and interview the staff.

Our next stop was to Essex Performance USA distributor for AP Racing brakes where we interview Jeff Ritter. Talk about brake kits and their upcoming brake setup for the C7 Stingray.

I Enjoi this.

I love Ohlins' attention to detail. The enginerd in me has been satisfied by that build quality.

We saw their F1 dampers and Lemans car dampers. It's beyond reasonable the costs associated with them.

What is it that makes a damper so expensive? Dampers are generally pretty simple devices, so would the additional cost be due to R&D mainly?

Excellent suspension. :bow:

Suspension is a black art. There are different schools of thought on how to develop an excellent suspension kit. The damper body is all the same and the function is the same, however, it's all about how you get there and how precise and refined you want to be. That's where it gets expensive. The more refined and higher end the suspension, the better it maintains that tire contact with the road without disrupting the balance of the vehicle.

I like the Ohlins TTX stuff...2-way, 3-way, 4-way. :drool:

Ohlins and Essex sounds like a match made in heaven

Yeah they are serious and seriously expensive, total art to having them valved and setup properly.

In the case of the F1 shock pictured below, they are designed from the ground up. So the F1 dampers for Toyota cost the team 5 Million USD for the year for both cars, that included design, valving and rebuilds after every practice and race. They only last one session before having to be re-bulit.

The shock weighted almost the same as my Galaxy Note 2, and Ohlins said the teams would remove the adjustment knobs and have them build the fixed valving to save even more weight.

Excellent video!

Very high tolerances and build quality, quality of materials, R&D, support, etc.
Nope! The damper engineers I talk to hate hearing that. It's NOT a black art, it's just a lot of physics and math. To some, well...that is a black art but it really isn't magic. Complicated as hell and painfully intricate, but not magic.

- Andy

It's magic! :D

On a serious note, there is definitely serious math and physics involved, but also takes a creative mind to really solve those complex problems as well. I don't think my brain can work out the functions involved with such design. I'll stick to being a standard mechanical engineer for now... :slap:

Excited

I want the whole vid now! :mad0259:

Yes hurry yo ass up j/k :) and more of Mark's unique humor

It takes time have to finish my video about installing a toilet chair in the FRS first.

David is a mechanical engineer by trade; I try to answer the suspension questions because if he posts, he'll just go crazy enginerd on us and lose us all... including me.

We have never had any issues with ohlins!

Their quality is 2nd to none!

-Michael

"Michael" :lol:

FORGOT THIS WASN'T THE370Z.COM!

LOL

Update! I need to have more excuses to show the fiance why I need Ohlins R+T. I will have to go with the old V3's if I have to but I like to move up and I had those on the RSX in college but that was single man money. Its not so easy anymore.

Why GOOD consistent dampers cost a lot: Machining and assembly tolerances. Damping is *very* sensitive to very small changes in machining, fitment, shimstack, etc. etc. etc. It is VERY cheap to make a damper if you don't care what the damping curve is from part to part. It is VERY expensive to go to the required lengths to ensure that you have a *consistent* good damping curve.

If you want to call and hear Myles gush about them for half an hour, go for it. :lol: Just be sure to tell him to stop before he starts crying.

- Andy

Good Stuff...Thanks for Sharing!

Looking forward to the full video!! :thumbsup:

The Ohlins video releases today just in time to bore you before xmas.

:party0030:

Where is the video?

The review is on the nameless schedule.

I mean it's a review with a teaser... How many months does it take for a review of a car part?

Footage: 20 hours
Editing: 16 hours
Travel: 22 hours
Graphics: 3 hours
Writing: 2 hours

Total Time: 63 hours
Spare Time for this: -63 hours

Can't wait for the video on these. Stuck between Ohlins and AST's for my coilovers...

Install and video is complete:

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54235