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Originally Posted by Sam88gta1
I asked another Sponsor this same question but he never answered.
Why would you want the front end to fully extend and waste the motion when the car could be using that energy to move forward?
Will a car be quicker with a strut on full soft or full hard if tire spin is not an issue?
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Not sure what motion wasted you are referring to, could you clarify your question? You want to get the weight of the car transferred quickly, in a controlled fashion, to the rear tires, with out overloading them. To do this, you want little resistance from the front droop valving, and you want front springs that are going to keep pushing up at full extension, and then stay there with out coming back down too fast.
It is hard to say weather a strut will be faster on full soft or full hard because Company A's valving and Company B's valving will not be the same. Dampers do not all have the same valving. And then, there are still options within the valving in terms of compression and rebound, and low and high-speed characteristics. So no one can say weather a "full hard" or "full soft" strut will work better, with out knowing the characteristics.