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Originally Posted by Racecomp Engineering
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
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1. Fair. The options are greater with the bigger budget. That does not contradict the statement (nor does it make "franken-Megans" an invalid option), but it is a notable caveat.
2. Sure those things don't show up on the sanitized marketing version of dyno plot, but they can be tested for on the dyno and rectified before they ever leave the shop. I suppose "exact same" means different things to different people, to me it means under every test case they operate exactly the same.
The adjusters bump the price up over $10k
I never meant to imply that expensive shocks don't have value, only that tuning is everything. Let that be my amendment, in many cases you DO get what you pay for.
