Originally Posted by
mourinho
ive been struggling with this for a long time now, our track is carpet directly on concrete with ply / wood jumps etc. if you overshoot, you are landing on concrete from 5ft up after flying for 12ft+..
i think there are certain jumps and landings that are simply beyond the abilities of our cars suspension to control, these jumps you just need to focus on nailing the downramp every. single. time. if you cant manage this, you simply have to deal with the 'pack bounce' from running heavy oils/small holes or the chassis slap from running large holes/light oil.
i have tried all these combinations and there is no magic setup for flat landing a big jump apart from not flat landing a big jump..
A step in the right direction would be bladders. Bladders (w/ caps that breathe) would keep the air out of the oil as much as possible making them as consistent as possible. You could choose to run without the bleed screw for completely no rebound or with the screw for a little "pack" at the end of the stroke.
I used bladders with no screw during a local points series with a some huge jumps.
video of layout. The jump area in front of the driver stand was changed from the original design. No proper landing was put in for various reasons. But racers found if they could take it like a triple and land it there was time to be gained and you know how racers get.
Obviously the use of bladders was half-baked as the shocks aren't designed for it but they managed to stay in position long enough and worked well enough. Eventually one failed to remain in the proper orientation but I'll chalk it up to the piston beating the stuff out of it.
Admittedly my hot lap was a tick slower(could have been conditions too) but the consistency gain was well worth it at the time.
I'm not one one to rush out to buy the latest and greatest item/fad. Heck I'm still racing a B5M. But, if AE came out with a proper design for using bladders. Boom. Money well spent.