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Originally Posted by lookingformore
What do you do for a living? Maybe sales......
Your reasoning allows me no other direction but AFCO.
Money isn't the issue with me, i know quality costs money- i just know there are products out there that WORK just the same as products that are ultra expensive- if a particular item works more then the rest than it warrants the money- i was trying to research that aspect-
Now your reasoning was for adjustability- how much is needed and what determines where you should be?
Also where is it better to start, front or rear with the suspension? Should springs change too?
Got a price of $300 for the AFCO shocks BTW, is that on par with everyone?
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As Ian mentioned i build race cars for Landy's Performance. I'm not selling anything, just advising you of whats currently the best Options on the market.
Afcos are not the most expensive shocks on the market, however for they offer the most for the money.
Penske's are roughly ($2800 a set(4)), and Santhuff's (roughly $2200 a set (4))
however until they cars power range puts it somewhere in the 7 second range, Afcos are the best deal.
the reasons i like them, they're sensative to change, the package a range of valving in rebound from being able to pull the shock apart with no effort, all the way to not being able to pull them apart by hand.
On one of the cars i tune, i can fine tune the wheel stand height anywheres from leaving dragging the bumper on the ground, to not lifting the tire, All in the front shock rebound.
The range of compression is just as significant, once the car wheelstands it must return to earth, a 2ft wheelstand in a 10 second car results in a significant bounce if the compression adjustment isnt strong enough.
even small wheelstands will result in a bounce with Koni SPA1's or QA1's. Since the Konis dont have enough compression dampening, and the QA1's are linear on both compression and rebound in the single adjustables.
The Afcos are truely independently adjustable, meaning a change in compression doesnt effect rebound, and vice versa.
A host of the "inexpensive" Double adjustable shocks on the market are NOT truely independent, which can cause alot of trouble in tuning, since the car wont react as it should to a change.
When i went looking for Real shocks, becuase i was tired of spending money in vain on the single adjustable shocks on the market, i first looked at Penske, and was referred to Afco by a friend of mine who builds stock and super stock eliminator race cars for a living, as well as designing his own stock eliminator suspension kits, his equipment is under many record holding stockers in the country, and he spends alot of time on a shock dyno performing testing of new "latest greatest" technology which often turns out to be less then that.
Your shock valving is detiremined in testing, if you are serious i can give you a baseline setting which will have you in the ball park.