Thread: Dampers
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Old 16 Jan 2006, 10:18 (Ref:1502225)   #16
Lukin
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Lukin should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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Originally Posted by phoenix
Try using something other than dampers to control weight transfer, then use the dampers for the purpose they were designed.
I probably said that bit wrong. I know damper's don't control the amount of weight transfer, I was referring the the speed of load transfer during braking, turn in, mid corner and exit and how it can be used to tune the car in transient conditions (especially if your playing with roll centre heights and changing the amount of instant load transfer through the suspension arms etc).

I was referring to silente:

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i have analyzed some dampers and i have seen that at low speed, in the first part of the curve, we have damping ratio of 1.5 with the softest solution and of about 3 with the harder one...it makes any sense?
I assume he means a ratio of 1.5-3 for compression:rebound, not C/Cr, or else he must be doing something wrong, or using cement instead of oil.
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