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Originally Posted by Spacemane969
Thanks guys. One last thing. With adjustable dampers would running soft settings have the effect of feeling like the springs got softer as a whole? I'd rather start a little higher on spring rate and adjust them softer if I start losing too much grip.
So for instance if I bought 8k springs and the softer setting would bring them down to feeling like 6k, relatively, with all of the components at work.
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I'm not a professional in this area but:
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: not really. As stated springs are only part of the equation. From what I've been reading and my discussions at the track it seems shock valving has a much higher effect ride quality, especially with (3 way? 4 way?) adjustable shocks. From my understanding for track use you typically want the low velocity bump damping to be high and high velocity bump damping to be low. Low velocity bump would be from driver inputs. If the shock only allows slow movement for these then the car can react faster to the driver inputs because you don't have to wait on the suspension re-settling. The high velocity bump will be from the actual road imperfections, curb, etc. With low damping on the high velocity bump then the suspension can soak up these imperfections much better without upsetting the car.
Once again I am not a professional/expert in this area but I do have a lot of interest/discussions about it. PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong. That said I am also talking about a 'typical' situation for any car and as we know nothing in racing is really typical and every car is different.