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Old 04-27-2015, 04:11 PM   #266
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Originally Posted by cdrazic93 View Post
This just popped into my head (either its a super simple answer or complicated) if you match the perfect spring rate to the dampening force, you achive the critical damping ratio (~0.65). When you add adjustability, wouldnt that change the critical ratio? Or is the ratio more of a range thats acceptable given on road circumstances, i.e. higher ratio would be for track and a lower ratio would be on a street car.
If only it were all that simple... here's a good read for ya. http://www.kaztechnologies.com/wp-co...m-Kasprzak.pdf. Mainly page 14 and on.. but all of it is a good read.
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