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Jayem
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Re: How to understand "The value of damping force"

Fri, 23 April 2004 10:15

Thanks heaps! Very Happy

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Yeah ppl, listen to gold28, shocks are not related to ride height/stiffness/etc!

Shocks should match ride height and spring stiffnes.
I ment stiff shocks as matching shocks for my somewhat stiff springs Rolling Eyes

. And this is where you did get me little wrong thanks to my lousy English.

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You do not install a damper with a high damping force to make your ride stiffer. You put stiffer prings in for that and then follow it up with uprated dampers to control the bigger springs.

Clear as water. I have read some books about suspension.

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A damper cannot support a static load, all it can do is slow down motion. If you look at the damping specs in the TRD page you posted, one of the units given is for kgf (kilograms force) Don't get this confused with weight as it is a force. As oldcorollas pointed out earlier, at the bottom of the page it qualify's the specification by saying that it is the damping force for a piston speed of 0.3m/s. in otherwords, if you had a damper with a compressive rating of 100kgf and stood it with 100kg on top, it would sink at 0.3m/s. If it had a stroke length of 0.3m, then it would take 1 second to travel the whole stroke length.

Thanks for clarifying that.

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