(14-06-2014, 03:49 AM)JethroJay Wrote:(13-06-2014, 11:46 PM)RetroPug Wrote: The best suspension is the one that is set up correctly for the car.
Adjustable dampers etc. are the best that money can buy but that is in terms of quality, precision, repeatability, lack of fade etc. They still rely on being set up correctly.
Secondly, the best dampers you can buy are several times more than the value of your car.
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Cars are bound by the laws of physics, and they are relatively complex dynamic systems.
You can go a bit lower and a bit stiffer and see an improvement with a trade-off in comfort, but an optimum set up simply cannot be reached with fit and forget bolt-ons.
Yeah so? Who cares about the price of the car, it's about the price of the stuff going on it, the dearer the better and I'll think about getting some of them "best" dampers :-)
So, you can buy off-the-shelf components which are a bit stiffer and improve handling a bit, and when buying adjustable ones the more and more you pay you are paying for better precision, control and quality but unless they are set up correctly using some combination of mathematics/testing/modelling you are spending more money for no gain in handling or potentially worse handling.
The 2k each dampers will make your car handle worse than standard if they are set up poorly, so unless you have access to a 4-post rig and multibody dynamics software and know how to use it, or are willing to pay many thousands for someone who does to set them up, the 2k dampers are useless.
This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted above as fact.
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