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Originally Posted by strat61caster
If a Megan damper set has the exact same damping curve as a $10k Penske set they'll act the same.
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No. Two things wrong with this:
1. You can get a damping curve on Penskes that you simply can't get on Megans. On basic Megans your stuck with a simple linear piston and although you can work some magic with the shimstack, you aren't going to be able to get some of the results you could get with Penskes. Digressive, double digressive, regressive curves. (leaving franken-Megans out of this).
2. Even if you had identical basic linear curves, there are a lot of other factors at play when it comes to what you feel. Gas pressure, friction, seal drag, shock fade, etc. There are things that don't show up on every shock dyno plot (i.e. CVP vs PVP plots) but are very noticeable even on the street.
And then there's the adjusters.
- Andrew