Is this statement correct?

[02BLUR]

"By adjusting a shock to a stiffer available setting compared to the others, more weight will be transferred at that wheel, providing less grip to the tire under racing conditions. Conversely, selecting a softer setting for a given shock will cause less weight to be transferred on its wheel, offering more grip to that tire"

Seems wrong, is it?

 

[igs]

Shock setting does not affect amount of weight transfer, PERIOD!!!!

 

[ACM]

To elucidate, damping is a timing function, it adjusts the speed with which events happen, but not the magintude of the events themselves.

For example, the angle to which your car rolls in a turn is governed by the roll resistance of the springs and anti-roll bars fitted, but the speed with which the car gets to that angle is governed by the damping adjustment.

The timing of the weight transfer is affected, not the overall weight transfer. Except - as a physics major will have just picked up - this is not exactly correct, but to paraphrase another famous DSM-er, for all reasonable values of averageness it might as well be.


Charles.