| Re: Bump vs Rebound? |
Subject: Re: Bump vs Rebound? by gkmccready on 2008/11/9 22:00:28 With the soft springs do you choose big anti-roll bars? What role is each suspension component supposed to have? Aren't shocks simply there to control the springs? And springs to hold the car off the ground and provide roll resistance? Swaybars to add side-to-side roll resistance that can't [comfortably] be provided by the springs? If springs are too soft aren't you putting the shocks outside of their comfort zone? Using them to try to control the roll and not just the roll rate? I'm looking at this as an Optimal spring rate, and then a too stiff or too soft spring rate. It's all about compromise, right? Too stiff works only on smooth surfaces or with a crazy good driver. Too soft has a much bigger sweet spot for surfaces and drivers -- until you bottom out and go infinite on the spring rate. All this is outside of the whole bump/rebound and what each is supposed to control. Or how a bleed, shim stack, or blow-off come together to control things that cause different shock shaft speeds, of course. :-) I'm trying to understand the real compromise in valving; since you need to control a front/rear weight transfer, and a left/right weight transfer and those seem like they're very different things. Top that off since the two distinctly different roles of roll control (low-speed) and bumps (high-speed) ... I'm trying to come to grips with how the innards of a shock differentiate that. |
