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Old 02-03-2015, 07:54 PM   #2280
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Originally Posted by Captain Snooze View Post
Unimportant damper question.
Do dampers have a wear in period? That is, after a certain amount of time do they start working better than when they were first put on the car? This assumes that any difference can be felt.
They absolutely do. I put on Bilsteins last year and the first time out at autox the car had very little body roll (extremely stiff) and I put down absolutely god-awful times (last place in STX). The next one was about a month later, in which time they had really softened up and I took STX by a decent margin against the same group of drivers. The dampers had been so stiff the first time that I couldn't put much load on them before they just broke the tires loose.
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