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What is damping adjustment on coilovers?
Damping adjustments are typically best left for fine tuning and specific chassis balance. The Spring. It’s the springs that absorb bumps and control body roll, not the shocks. They do so by compressing and expanding to absorb individual wheel motion.
What is damping adjustment?
Damping controls the travel speed and resistance of the vehicle’s suspension. An undamped car will oscillate up and down. So essentially that is what you are controlling when you are adjusting your damping, either harder or softer. You’re either increasing or decreasing the resistance to fluid flow.
How stiff should my coilovers be?
If you bounce once when you hit the bottom, they’re set correctly. If you bounce more than once, they’re set too stiff. And if you don’t bounce at all, that’s acceptable also.
Do coilovers lower your car?
Coilovers typically lower your car more than a set of springs alone, leaving you vulnerable to steep driveways, speed bumps & rough, uneven road surfaces. Coilovers are more expensive than lowering springs.
What does S and H mean on coilovers?
Turning the rebound adjuster screw towards H = slows down how fast the shock (rebounds) extends back out to a full shock travel length state. Turning the rebound adjuster screw towards S= speeds up how fast the shock (rebounds) extends back out to a full shock travel length state.
Is a stiff suspension good for drifting?
Suspension. A good set of coilovers is a very wise investment—they’re the heart of what will make your drift car handle well. Race car stiff is out—for drifting, you want to use spring rates that are only a little stiffer than typical high-performance street coilover spring rates.
How do coilovers work?
How a coilover works. A coilover setup is similar but uses a longer coil spring with a shock absorber mounted right down the length of the coil, so that the coil is around or “over” the shock. For the wheel to move upward in a coilover setup, both the spring and the shock must compress.
What do coilovers do?
A coilover also enables drivers to manage weight distribution from the driver’s seat. This control allows for the driver to create the ideal suspension in a vehicle, depending on the circumstances and terrain.
What is coil over shock?
By definition, a “coilover” is short for “coil spring over shock”. All this means is you have a coil spring literally sitting over your shock or strut. Other suspension systems such as leaf springs, keep the shock and spring separate.
What is coil over suspension?
A coilover is an automobile suspension device. The name coilover is an abbreviation of “coil-over shock absorber”.