What's going on everybody! I'm Bill. And I'm Tim.
And we're going to try and demystify
all of the adjustments you have on a
modern-day high-performance shock.
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Bill I'm going to show you here on our MOD Series Shock
a few different items. Here you have the
valve pack. Which bolts to the side of the shock body.
That gives you your range
of adjustment for your high-speed adjustment knob.
High-speed adjustment knob has 24 clicks
from full soft to full stiff. And also
another feature on here is your bleed adjustment. Which
is in between the two corresponding adjustment knobs.
That's going to be your low-speed adjustments. So low-speed,
high-speed. I've heard that term, well
I work at a shock place, but
otherwise, I mean that's a common term
you hear in shock valving, high-speed and low-speed
and it can be really easily misinterpreted
as like vehicle speed. Can you explain the difference between a high-speed and low-speed?
So what's that actually talking about? So high-speed
is going to be more of your faster chassis movements
and your bumps and dips in the roads.
So like you hit a crack in the road that's
you know an inch high, your shock has to move really quick to get out of the way.
Exactly. Okay, and low-speed?
Low-speed is going to be your slower chassis movements.
You know with body roll,
body dive, and squat. You're going to be utilizing that
low-speed adjustment when tuning those.
Okay, so and you mentioned bleed.
Now, bleed is?
Bleed is basically a bypass. It's a needle and jet
inside the module here.
Which
basically will allow any
fluid to bypass any valving
internally. So basically you're just opening up a jet
that's going to be your low-speed adjustment.
What would be some quick tips to get it
so that you can go out and drive it and enjoy it and
know that you're not way off on your settings? Right. First thing, whenever tuning with handling
you really want to have that rebound dialed up to a
fairly firm setting. That's going to help control that body roll.
You know both adjustments on your
high-speed adjustment and your bleed, you're going to want
them dialed up. That's going to help keep the front end
set you know when you're going through corners.
Switchbacks from left to right,
it's going to help keep the chassis underneath you.
If you're saying "crank them up" what does that mean? Go up to 4?
14? What do you think? Yeah,
I would recommend for a
handling situation to have the compression turned up about
halfway. So about 12 clicks from full soft.
The rebound you're going to be up towards the higher range
right around 20 give or take.
If you want to make adjustments on it,
I recommend going at least 2-3 clicks, that should be a noticeable
change to see the effect for you.
And don't be afraid to use the clicks. If you don't know what's going to
happen.
You know we didn't design a shock that's going to blow up
because you used the adjustments. So don't be afraid to use them,
you're not going to wreck anything by turning it all the way
up and see what it does on you know the
upper extreme
or turning it all the way down on to see what it does on the lower extreme.
Yeah definitely play with it, get used to it, see what
setting works for you.
Get used to the high and low-speed adjustments on what they do and
how they affect your car.
Yeah it's a great piece and
yeah definitely tune it in really good for handling. It's an experience thing.
The more you play with the shocks and the more you experiment
with different things,
the more you learn what those adjustments are doing.
Don't be afraid of it. We do have a valve pack here
just to show you what is with
you know how to interchange these.
There are just 5 screws on each valve pack. So if you get out of range on the adjustment on one,
you can just swap it out to a firmer one or softer one, whichever
direction you're going. Pretty simple, you can do it right on the car.
For handling,
you know handling vehicles where you're doing autocross or road racing
and stuff, you most likely want to go with a high
or the firm valve pack on rebound
to get that higher rebound force. Nice.
Cool. Well
if you have any additional questions
feel free to give us a call, shoot us an email.
Otherwise, you can also just see these shocks
and a lot
of technical information on our website, www.QA1.net
And we'll see you next time!
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