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Originally Posted by Apricot Slice
If only one of the damper speeds can practically be made to have differing rates of bound and rebound. which would you say is the most important to have it on?
(I would assume that the high speed side would be far more important.)
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You need to think about this a bit more and understand the damper.
All dampers produce different damper forces at different damper speeds, so they are already variable. Best practical way to experience this is simply to take the damper off the car and push the rod in and out at varying speeds to feel the difference.
The events on the track happen at different damper speeds, handling is fairly low speed, bumps can be mid to high speed and landing off a big jump is high speed.
The compromise with an RC damper is there because this relationship is fixed, i.e. it produces more force as you move it faster exactly the same way no matter what oil and piston you use, it's just the overall amount that changes. If you had a more complex piston you could start to change these relationships to tune one bit for handling, one for jumps and one for ride on the bumps based on different dampers speeds on different events as above.