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Comments by "John Luetjen" (@jehl1963) on "" video.
I'm happy to see it running so well -- congratulations! Shocks (or as you English tend to more accurately describe them as "Dampers") can be subtle things to adjust. First you need to understand what the adjustment adjusts: Low-speed bounce/compression? low-speed rebound? high-speed compression? high speed rebound? Some combination of those or something else like blowoff? Each characteristic affects a different aspect of the car's ride. Low speed compression and rebound effect how the car transitions into and out of corners -- basically how it "settles". These can influence understeer and oversteer. The high speed settings (and blow-off if the shocks are so equipped) effects the way the suspension handles sharp bumps, like a railroad crossing, pot holes or the patter of the rear end that you were referring to. The low-speed settings are more commonly adjustable road-car or many race shocks, but sometimes they adjust both compression and rebound at the same time.
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