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Old 05-12-2014, 01:55 PM   #1379
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That link had a loooot of marketing. The decision between twin and monotube should not be made based on travel. If a damper is designed correctly for the application, the damper should have adequate travel. Period. Subaru puts inverted Mono's into the sti, bilstein's offerings are all inverted monotubes ( for our car at least). You can't tell me bilstein put in less engineering than tein.

Just a car in point. Rally cars almost exclusively run long travel inverted monotubes. They have prodigious amounts of travel. Specialized application? Yes. But obviously long travel can be done.

To me the advantages in strength, damping precision, resistance to foaming and cavitation, ease of rebuildability, and ease of revalving are all hugely in monotube's favor.
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