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Shock Dynamometer: Where The Graphs Come From

From Roehrig Engineering, Inc.
 

 
Damper performance is still voodoo to most racers, and they're scrambling to learn all they can. A shock dynamometer is the newest line item appearing in all test and development budgets. The most serious teams have one at the shop and another one in the trailer. They need a person responsible for the operation of this equipment and the associated computers, so now a lot of big teams have a 'shock guy” who's either a full-time employee or an outside consultant who's there at tests and on race weekends. Dampers produce a force proportional to the speed of shaft movement. If you compress a damper slowly, it generates less resistant force than if you move it faster. As mentioned before, a damper on a race car does several very important things including providing a tunable 'feel” for the driver during cornering, controlling wheel travel over road irregularities, and, most important for a ground-effects car, stabilizing the under wing of the car at optimum ride height and rake.
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