Two way adjustable gas mono shocks like the Nitrons etc, have low speed adjusters. This is damper shaft speed not car speed, low damper shaft speeds are what you feel during all your transient movements like turn in, power on, braking etc. So you can make the car feel considerably less twitchy etc when using it on the road with a few clicks of adjustment.
2 way probably is the way to go with a car like this because it gives you enough to play with to find your preferred setting without the complexity of the 3 and 4 way adjustments which also adjust the way the car feels when bouncing in and out of pot holes or over kerbs. Low speed adjusters effect the way the damper gets into its high speed area so with 3 and 4 way adjustment you can go around chasing your settings all day and getting lost. They are really for out and out racing and for engineers who really understand how they work and relate to the car.
The problem i see with cheap twin tube dampers is that they are sold to be all things to all men. You have around 20 clicks of adjustment (they adjust bump and rebound together usually) and in that range the damper is supposed to suit a light weight single seat race car all the way through to a heavy luxury car. The adjustment range is so vast that your car setting may well be a big compromise on what you really want. With a mono tube race style damper the manufacture will valve the damper to suit your car in the middle of a narrower band of adjustment and then give you 20 clicks of adjustment, so each adjustment is finer and you have to have less compromise in what you want.
I agree with Mark that you might not get it to be a track animal and tamed road car at the same time, but, dampers adjustments can help the transition depending on where your baseline is set. If you don't mind a slightly stiff road car, you can easily soften all the dampers off for road use and stiffen them up for track use and it will be a sizeable difference in performance from your point of view.
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2 way probably is the way to go with a car like this because it gives you enough to play with to find your preferred setting without the complexity of the 3 and 4 way adjustments which also adjust the way the car feels when bouncing in and out of pot holes or over kerbs. Low speed adjusters effect the way the damper gets into its high speed area so with 3 and 4 way adjustment you can go around chasing your settings all day and getting lost. They are really for out and out racing and for engineers who really understand how they work and relate to the car.
The problem i see with cheap twin tube dampers is that they are sold to be all things to all men. You have around 20 clicks of adjustment (they adjust bump and rebound together usually) and in that range the damper is supposed to suit a light weight single seat race car all the way through to a heavy luxury car. The adjustment range is so vast that your car setting may well be a big compromise on what you really want. With a mono tube race style damper the manufacture will valve the damper to suit your car in the middle of a narrower band of adjustment and then give you 20 clicks of adjustment, so each adjustment is finer and you have to have less compromise in what you want.
I agree with Mark that you might not get it to be a track animal and tamed road car at the same time, but, dampers adjustments can help the transition depending on where your baseline is set. If you don't mind a slightly stiff road car, you can easily soften all the dampers off for road use and stiffen them up for track use and it will be a sizeable difference in performance from your point of view.
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