Originally Posted by
Mike Rainbird
What damper settings have you got it on?
To be honest - I have no idea, I just drove it back home from our workshop, haven't had a look yet. It feels very promising that's all, I am not happy with the overall balance of the car as yet and I think I need the rear a bit higher, but I must get used to the car as it is hard to compare to what I am used to. I haven't driven a Cossie in 2 years.
I forgot to say for really bumpy roads to put it on the softest settings front and rear and then stiffen up a couple of clicks at a time on the front and one click on the rear until you get where you want to be.
I will check the options, as I am limited to driving slowly (engine has 700km's on it and still on running-in oil) I am not trying to take corners agresively as I cannot use throttle for rescue
With fractionally stiffer springs, I run the front on position 7 and the rear on zero (B-road settings - probably equivalent to your motorways
). I designed yours to have slightly softer springs so you might need to start a fraction higher on the settings.
Good, I feel that it's exactly what I wanted.
Can we have some decent pictures now?
Sorry can't afford a camera, everything spent on Cossie
I will try to provide semi-decent ones soon. I have to sort ugly registration-plate sticker that I stickered on it today to be at least half-legal on the road.
Not sure if I like the "for what it is" comments
. You obviously can't compare it to the Proflex / Ohlins / Reijger you're used to seeing on the rally cars
.
It's exactly what I was thinking about, it's not 5k quid Ohlins, but it is very good
I have direct comparison as I have driven to pick the car up in our show-car Impreza which runs incredibly good JRZ RS-pro suspension, with remote canisters and seperate rebound/bump adjustments. I think the suspension setup for you is better for Cossie shell and it's a bit different character and dampers seem to be less harsh in their high speed characteristic, of course low speed is surely worse but that is a tradeoff on more comfortable road damper.
I will post more for sure when I get to drive it some more.