I just finished intstalling the Buddy Club Racing Spec damper on my 2000 ITR.
I have transposed the springs to 7K Front / 10K Rear. The damper has 15 settings.

I'm wondering what people recommend for the damper settings for autocross as well as road racing.

Thanks,

David

 

I have 16k/12k springs on my civic (I know it's not an ITR) and for autocross I usually run 3-5 front and 2-3 in the rear. Track days are 6 or so in front and around 3-5 in the rear. Really depends on how you like your car to behave.

Zach

 

Interesting about running them that low, I was curious about that, we have them on the One Lap Evo (granted a bit more weight) and have had to run the dampers in the upper ranges 9-12 to control a "floaty" feeling, thats with 10k/10k springs.

Jon K
http://www.seat-time.com

 

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Jon K
http://www.seat-time.com</TD></TR></TABLE>

Not really interesting at all when you think about it. My spring rates are higher and the car is probably 600-1000lbs lighter than an Evo

 

change it to your standards....how you like the car to handle....not someone else

everyone likes something different

 

Yep, you definitely have to play around with it yourself. I've only fiddled with them a bit and so far like 3F/6R with my springs at 10K F/ 7K R. I'm not sure about for the Evo ones, but the shocks for Hondas, there's no point in adjusting higher than 10 clicks. Check out the shock dyno thread in the Suspension forum, I had my BCs dynoed.

 

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Not really interesting at all when you think about it. My spring rates are higher and the car is probably 600-1000lbs lighter than an Evo </TD></TR></TABLE>

in reality the rates on the evo probably translate to feel stiffer then it would in your car.

the evo being a strut type car will have a higher wheel rate then your honda would given the same spring rates

 

I'm wondering if the Evo has the same base shocks as for the Tegs/Civics, because if he does, he's seeing upwards of 10K N of force with those settings

 

I have a season of autocrossing on my BC's with 10K/12K spring rates. After fiddling with settings, adjusting to make the car work appropriately, viewing shock dyno's, sitting through shock sessions (courtesty of Lee @ Koni) I've concluded you don't need to go over 8 clicks up front and certainly nothing over 10 in the rear.

I really found the sweet spot for my setup with 7 clicks up front. The rear is subject to debate. I used to run 11-12 clicks in the rear, but found the car a little snappy in high speed transitions. Lowering the rears to between 7-9 made the car much more predictable and is what I would recommend based on course setup. With softer spring rates, you may want to go lower on shock settings, though...

 

Thanks Guys,
I just wanted as starting point and will go from there.

David

 

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I just wanted as starting point and will go from there.

David</TD></TR></TABLE>

Test and tune it at an autocross one day, or even one on Saturday and another the following Sunday.

Good luck.

 

Not sure if you'd think of it or not, but while "feel" is one thing, you should try and get some timed run differences to see if one setting is actually faster than another.