When it comes to suspension valving, are you digressive? With Race Comp Engineering
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- For Episode 87 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon sits down with Drew and Larry from Race Comp Engineering to talk about suspension valving.
The inspiration for this conversation started with Digressive valving, but to talk about that, we would have to talk about how valving worked, and that would make for a broader discussion. Drew was certain that we could spend an entire episode just talking about valving, but I wasn't sure.
Drew was 100% right.
This is a great discussion about how your suspension works, and the different types of valving do (linear, progressive, and digressive), and what those adjustment knobs on your suspension change, and how to get a sense of whether or not you have them set properly.
In fact, this ended up being nearly a 2 hour conversation. I have put up the majority of the talk here, but the full length episode will be the first one that we put up on our new Patreon page!
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If you sign up, you can listen and watch to the whole conversation, and there were some good points at the end that we didn't have time for here.
Thanks very much for listening and Stay Tuned! - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Glad this topic was talked about and with RCE but not gonna lie that this was rough to follow and pretty scattered. I know enough to follow each area but the general concepts were clearly hard to simplify here....this comes from a place of love Jon. 😉😎
Thanks, and I appreciate the feedback Paul.
Can you give me a time mark, or maybe a topic where things went wrong?
If we dive back into this, I'll do my best to make it more clear.
Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!
Was told by RaceComp that valving was more important than anything for a fast setup, happy to see a full podcast explaining further into the topic. Awesome content as always.
Thanks very much! Pass it on if you can.
Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!
Amazing content, RCE guys (including Myles) are amazing, their Tarmac 2 are really impressive, their educational posts on forums were very useful for me to learn this stuff. Thanks guys!
Thanks very much and glad to hear it! Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!
Myles helped me get set up with some Tarmac 2s. they are FANTASTIC! got to love a company that gives back; they even sent me a tshirt and helmet visor sticker to represent RCE!!
Very cool! Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!
A few drinks in, but curious about something toward the end of the video. Are folks really coming ALLhe way off the brakes BEFORE turn-in? I may just be coming from the world of old sloppy cars, but I always like to ease off the brakes AS I am initiating turn-in, because then the front is settled...
Thanks for watching and thanks for the question. What you are describing is Trail Braking. It can certainly be a useful technique in some cars and some situations.
When and how you release the brake is definitely more important that you would think.
Stay Tuned!
At 52 min. Midcorner balance is affected most by springs and sway bars. Entry and exit balance is affected most by shock damping. First adjust midcorner balance then entry then exit.
If it was structured better with a written abstract in description this would be great
At 32 min. You get it wrong. When you use the bicycle pump analogy. It's not where you are in the stroke of the pump (length) it's how fast you push the pump handle that changes the force (resistance to motion or damping). The difference between progressive and digressive is how much the force increases with the increase in speed of your hand motion. Look at the slope on the graph to see the difference.
came to say this
digressive at 27:57
If you want the benefits of digressive valving go with a high quality damping adjustable monotube option like Cygnus Performance X-1's or their custom Ohlins. RCE is mostly twin tube or not damping adjustable. Both Bilstein and KW who make all of the rce suspension also make damping adjustable monotubes when it comes to their best offerings which do not have the RCE name on them btw.