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Originally Posted by Dimman
Why Penske > most other dampers*
Damper companies. Their regressive curves are not exactly standard.
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How much fun would it be to add a regressive spring setup to that? Were those spring setups a DTM thing or a BTCC thing?
I wish more companies would publish damper maps for their products. It makes me wary of brands I don't know. I have been lucky enough to get to use Penske dampers (and Ohlins race dampers during FSAE). The dampers aren't necessarily better but they are inherently better. The tradeoff is lots of ways to get truly lost. That tradeoff is inherent in ANY fully adjustable shock. It is a risk/reward thing...more opportunity to tune to perfection, more opportunity to tune away from perfection. Honestly...go buy 'Tune to Win' and start reading.
If you are interested in actually using adjustable shocks I would suggest you just dedicate a track day or AX day not to racing but to practicing. Go set the shocks to the extremes, and then the other extremes. see what the difference is between full soft and full hard, hard compression with soft rebound and vice versa. From working with a lot of newer drivers over the years most don't even know what to feel much less how to feel it or what to do. Sometimes using those extremes is a really good way of teaching that feel and is a dual opportunity to develop that feeling
and become a better driver by becoming a more knowledgeable one.