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Originally Posted by axmea? Assuming your install and damper settings are correct, what you are feeling is normal especially when you mention freeway splits where you have poor grade points

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Old 11-14-2016, 01:19 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Assuming your install and damper settings are correct, what you are feeling is normal especially when you mention freeway splits where you have poor grade points and grade separation. If you voted for a bullet train for CA instead of fixing out freeways, that's your fault. Kidding aside, do you have anything on how your car steers? No mention of over/understeer to help us out.
Lol **** ca is never going to fix its roads we all know that. To above poster there is no compression adjust in the powertrix it is only rebound. In a sense that is a good thing as that means they actually spent the money for a one way piston bolt to eliminate cross talk. But yes I think the rebound may be a bit too fast I'll have to test it a bit over the week, just giving my honest initial impressions before I try to conivince myself it's what I want (as a lot of people do after spending lot of money on something). Smooth roads and OMG awesome setup but as I stressed from day one this car is daily driven and 99.5% street and I'm not in a race league so not competing just want a touch better than oem, if oem is level 5 then I'm ok with level 7, not trying to hit 11. As this setup has proven there is definey improvement to be had by just the shocks, however most if not all the aftermarket shocks tend to have a very steep digressive setup with a bias to a jacking down rebound which is horrible for rough road (oem is jacking down bias). Was hoping to get something that can be a touch jacking up or neutral for street and then a jacking down bias for track/smooth.

I'll let you guys know how I feel after a bit but initial impressions are it's a solid product but just not right for my purpose.

Oh as for oversteer/understeer I really can't say as I didn't push it on the uneven surfaces which is another thing, stiffer is not always better, hit a bump with hard suspension and it upsets the car and loses mechanical grip, after a few dips and getting ejected I didn't feel very confident in pushing the car in a turn. That said the few sweeper I did try it felt very good and like a flatter oem, which makes sense as oem f/r rates are very close to each other and so are the powertrix so I give them points there for following oem balance and not gaining a bunch of understeer.
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