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| | Shock Absorber Tuning |
 | | With shock tuning for balance, you are choosing a particular transient (corner phase), a movement of the car, where you can wedge or de-wedge the car, sometimes to increase overall grip and at other times, to make the car more progressive for the driver. |
 | | With shock tuning for balance, we are wedging and de-weding the car (or leaving wedge unchanged), just as we do for with springs and antiroll bars, except that shocks are only applying loads while they are moving in bump or re-bound (transients). |
 | | All that is happening is the stiff shock overpowering the springs and bars, and the chassis is jacked down a bit, until the springs/bars take all the load away from the shock. |
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