Hello,
Check this site for the inventor and description.
Yamaha Motor USA - Yamaha Performance Damper
Thinking of adding to my 370z non nismo. Anybody have a stillen gen 3 CAI and 25+ row oil cooler? Does the front chassis stiffner get in the way a bit?
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Development
Body is always moving/vibrating when it is running. Never ending the vibrating
Mr. Sawai determined that if he could increase the decay rate of these vibrations inside of the structure, he could improve many elements of the vehicle. It took him only one year to take the concept of chassis damping from an idea into an actual working prototype.
Following a half year of testing, the first application of the PD came about in 2001 on the limited Toyota Crown Athlete VX with only 300 produced for the Japanese domestic market. Toyota decided to expand the use of the PD equipping select models globally with the Corolla XRS, Matrix SE and TS (in Europe). In 2004 another Japanese manufacturer bought into the performance damping concept with the introduction of the limited edition Subaru - S204. This proliferation of Yamaha technology in the automotive sector gained wide attention within the industry earning Yamaha several prestigious engineering awards in 2006 including