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Originally Posted by SlowOne
Off-Road is the ideal class right now, since you have that greatest of all levelers - more power than grip. As I said before, be careful what you wish for!
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Or more power than thumbs
I'm not wishing for scaled down adjustable 1:1 shocks. As someone posted before, the cars scale down, but the physics don't. 1:5 scale cars and planes are still close to realistic - I think wind tunnel tests are often done on scale models that are ~1:5. But anything 1:10th or smaller, forget realistic shapes or realistic handling. Water especially doesn't scale. For example: a 1/10th model of a speed boat doesn't work. A 1:10th speed boat that does work, does not look like a boat at all. Dirt doesn't scale either: realistic-looking dirt tyres don't grip, and real off-road trucks don't use spikes or pins.
Oh, and it works the other way as well: I don't think the jumps we have in off-road racing scale up
I don't think we want shim stacks to soften high-speed damping.
Needle-adjusted low speed damping and a floating piston look interesting, but sealing any kind of pressure on a 3mm shaft will be challenging...