Hi all,

 

I have just had my KYB AGX shocks fitted today (many thanks to Matt aka MTL for doing such a great job for me) and am just wondering what is the best damping setting to run them on. I have it on the hardest all round at the moment and it handles well but is very hard to drive on the bumpier roads.

 

Can the damping rate affect the handling in other ways?

 

Cheers,

 

Justin:)

Try setting them all in the middle then adjust it from there for how you like the feel / balance.

I figured that the people who devlop these things give an 'optimal' setting in the middle then some adjustment either way for preference / taste.

Be careful making it too hard as it tends to make the limit very snatchy and quick especially in the wet.

Cheers for the reply JD.

 

I must say it did seem especially twitchy in the wet today.

 

Justin

Hows it going m8? did the shocks make any differance? sorry again that it took so long and we had to finish before we got the prop bearing done, still I'm looking forward to doing that sunday! :D

Justin, where did you source your shocks from?

I have it on the hardest all round at the moment and it handles well but is very hard to drive on the bumpier roads.

 

Sounds like they're working properly then! :rofl:

 

But yeah, that's what you'd expect - the "harder" they are the less give you have in the suspension as a whole, so it'll follow the surface more. There's no magic settings which gives you mega-handling on Silverstone -and- mega-handling on the Grizedale Forest rally stage... which is why an Evo is nothing like an F1 car.

 

Have you got new bushings everywhere too? Otherwise they might now end up doing all the work (badly) instead of your nice new shocks!

 

Have you got aftermarket springs?

 

When I get round to all this I was going to do what JD suggests - start in the middle and go and play. Depending on driving style you might even want front and back different! Or you might even come up with two sets, for local B-road fun and long motorway cruising.

 

By coincidence I was playing GT3 last night and I tried setting everything to mega-hard on the 340bhp MR2... which seemed to work quite well on flat circuits, so long as you drifted every corner, but the town circuit with the railroad tracks on was hilarious.

Thanks for the advice Zevans,

 

I do have progressive lowering springs. My Bushes are the originals but I did notice one is starting to look a bit worn on the front.

 

I will have a mess about in the car when it is dry and try and decide what setting I want. Looking like somewhere in the middle so far though.

 

Herman,

 

I got my shocks from Z1 motorsports in the States.

 

http://www.300zx.com

 

They were $375.00 a set, shipping was $160 and tax etc was £80. I did get a prop bearing with that as well though.

 

Cheers,

 

Justin