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Originally Posted by Biggins
For more advanced autocross purposes, what are the performance differences between stock shocks, an off-the-shelf single adjustable (Konis), high quality singles (MCS, custom Konis,etc.), and high quality double adjustable (MCS, JRZ, Ohlins, etc)?
I think I'm ready to move to MCS, but I'm worried about having too much adjustability and spending a full season dialing them in... would the MCS singles be much of a step up from the OTS Konis that I currently have on my CS TRD FR-S? It's a lot of coin for what I would expect a good increase in performance.
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First off if you want to upgrade shocks you need to know how the shock (and car) reacts to changes. No sense on going to Penske if the knowledge isn't there, cause changes won't really help and you'll be on a wild witch hunt. Just IMO.
Differences in shocks car be twin tube vs monotube shocks, inverted...etc. Other major difference would the the shock dyno associated with said shocks, and level of adjustment within full soft/full stiff.
Some shocks that are 2-Way internals can be upgraded to 2 way externals if you want in the future, so that is something you should look at for future if you decide that route.
However, let me put it this way. Are you looking for shocks to make you quicker? Like, if you drive the same from today vs tomorrow do you automatically expect a time drop?
The STX National Champ winners in STX were both on KWv3s, which you'd think to be pretty low on the performance shock chart. 2nd Place in CS last year (Jullian Garfield) was on Degassed Konis.
Shock doesn't make the driver, just remember that.