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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
I assume you've already tried all the different combinations of damping proportion F/R and it hasn't helped?
Those spring rates sound low enough to get a decent ride out of them. You might try checking how the rates are proportioned front/rear relative to what the OEM rates were, because if they're a different proportion it will change the level ride speed of the car. OEM's tend to design for level ride speeds around what you typically see on the highway. If the rear rate has changed quite a bit relative to the front, it could cause excessive pitching at highway speeds. Just a thought...
It sounds like the low to mid-speed damping could be too stiff, especially in the rear, if it's throwing the car loose even over small bumps in corners. A properly tuned car shouldn't be doing that. Do you know what kind of valving the dampers have - linear, digressive, progressive-digressive, digressive-progressive?
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I've definately screwed around with 'em a lot, but I'm sure I could try is some more. I tried a lot of damping settings early on when my pre-load was wrong on the springs and my ride-height was too low... so there's a chance that something I tried back then might work now that the springs/ride height are better. Plus I still haven't corner-weighted the car properly. I weight it, so I've got the numbers around here somewhere, but I need to get it on the scales, on a level surface, and adjust the corner balance.
As far as specs on the dampers... well, JIC told me they'd have 'em for me before I purchased them, and now they tell me it's "top seceret proprietary data"...
So the only way I'll get it is to send 'em off to be dyno'd.
This thread's getting pretty off the original topic.. I'm gonna go split it off.