(24-12-2013, 03:12 PM)Rippthrough Wrote: Budd, the issue is the internal friction, they have shitloads, which is why they feel stiff and then bottom out the minute they hit a pothole - it takes a lot to get them moving but then the damping control is shite and it just blows through the travel. If you run the stiffer springs (I think we went through this on .net a while back with the right spring rates), and then go stiffer on the valving you might sorta make them worse.
agreed, and we have discussed this before
in the end if you can afford better quality then that's the best why to go if not then be prepared to put up with the short comings of these cheap items, at the end of the day the majority of punters buying these are simply looking for 'the stance' ie getting it as low as possible in which case performance is largely irrelevant. I'm still hopeful I can engineer some performance into mine,as I said before getting the spring rate something like as got to be the first port of call in improving things, when I have a spring rate that is more suitable I can look at damping, I haven't opened one of these cheapies up yet, but I will do if simply changing the spring rate doesn't yield the results I'm after. Dampers are pretty simple in principle, oil goes back and forth through holes varying the viscosity of the oil and size of holes ultimately determines the performance envelope, OK there's a bit more to it, shim stacks, oil volume etc but basically it's oil through holes, I may be I'm pissing in the wind but at least keeps me off the streets, well it does till I get them sorted