03-28-2011, 10:54 AM
Little harsh from them but Goodspeed has a "point" but is lost at this level of motorsports. With the inability to change shocks and springs for changing tracks/conditions etc like the pro teams, some level of adjustability needs to be built in to "band-aid" handling. Yes technically adjustable shocks are a no-no (aside from maybe getting the shock curves to match up because two shcoks in mass manfacturing almost never match up). However in the real world where a massive amount of testing and ability to change shcoks springs at every changing condition means that that adjustability allows you to fine tune in the shock.
Example: I autocross and road race. Two weekends ago at Verona, the course is choppy, and my road course setup had too much in the rear, prompting a popping off the rumble strip of a particular part of the autox course. Bumping it down allowed me to get the rear end to more smoothly control the rear end. Technically, having two sets of shocks and springs, one for road racing and one for autox would be better. So would setups for rainy tracks and dry tracks. Determine your level of racing and you can forego a lot of "noise".
Again I get what your going with here, but in the real world and at this level of motorsports it comes down to more "what works in the real world" instead of what happens in the lab. At this level, matching shocks on a dyno would provide far more benefit than valving for a particular spring, giving you "consistent" handling and adjustability instead of crappy shocks like Tein that have shock forces between the same shocks being wildy out of whack.
Example: I autocross and road race. Two weekends ago at Verona, the course is choppy, and my road course setup had too much in the rear, prompting a popping off the rumble strip of a particular part of the autox course. Bumping it down allowed me to get the rear end to more smoothly control the rear end. Technically, having two sets of shocks and springs, one for road racing and one for autox would be better. So would setups for rainy tracks and dry tracks. Determine your level of racing and you can forego a lot of "noise".
Again I get what your going with here, but in the real world and at this level of motorsports it comes down to more "what works in the real world" instead of what happens in the lab. At this level, matching shocks on a dyno would provide far more benefit than valving for a particular spring, giving you "consistent" handling and adjustability instead of crappy shocks like Tein that have shock forces between the same shocks being wildy out of whack.
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