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Old 11-04-2015, 04:59 PM   #95
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Originally Posted by DAEMANO View Post
Actually, they do. The bump stop (jounce bumper) acts a a secondary spring that has a rate of its' own. Riding on a bump stop does not eliminate the rate of the primary spring. So the rates of both the primary spring and bump stop work together to deliver the desired spring rate (in a well tuned suspension). Bump stop tuning is very much a thing.

http://honda-tech.com/suspension-bra...uning-3058735/

http://eibach.com/america/en/motorsp...ries/bumpstops
missing the point ins search of some rhetoric but yeah, i guess
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