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Shock Dyno sheets

Postby Tack » Sun May 24, 2009 2:14 pm

I dyno'ed the rear shocks off my '91 zxr750 J1 at work. Thought they may have been of interest to others.


The standard shock has four settings that adjust rebound only (as you can see):


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standard shock
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The Ohlins shock has 22 click adjustments for bump and about 60 clicks for rebound.

This is the dyno run for bump adjustment from full soft to full hard:

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Ohlins bump adjust
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This is the ohlins rebound dyno.....adjusted rebound 10 clicks at a time so that you can see the change!


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ohlins rebound dyno
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Re: Shock Dyno sheets

Postby Sulli » Sun May 24, 2009 5:31 pm

Things quiet at work ;)
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Re: Shock Dyno sheets

Postby Tack » Sun May 24, 2009 6:18 pm

Sulli wrote:Things quiet at work ;)


Bosses were away...lol.
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Re: Shock Dyno sheets

Postby the kid » Mon May 25, 2009 6:46 am

Hope you understand that stuff Brad :lol:
Ummmm let me see
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Re: Shock Dyno sheets

Postby bishboy » Mon May 25, 2009 9:27 am

So what does it mean dontknow.gif

Am I right to assume that it shows that the ohlins has a greater range of adjustment and can react to a more subtle amount of force and therefore can be more finely tuned?
I probably should know/learn this as I have two of them (ohlins shocks that is) :roll:

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Re: Shock Dyno sheets

Postby Tack » Mon May 25, 2009 4:41 pm

the kid wrote:Hope you understand that stuff Brad :lol:


Fortunately it's easy to understand Billy, the hard part is getting it set in the right range to go fast.. :lol: :lol:
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Re: Shock Dyno sheets

Postby Tack » Mon May 25, 2009 8:10 pm

bishboy wrote:So what does it mean dontknow.gif

Am I right to assume that it shows that the ohlins has a greater range of adjustment and can react to a more subtle amount of force and therefore can be more finely tuned?
I probably should know/learn this as I have two of them (ohlins shocks that is) :roll:


Yes, the ohlins has a much greater range of adjustment but more importantly, the valving in rebound will have a far greater effect on handling in the slower shock absorber speed range.
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Re: Shock Dyno sheets

Postby Stereo » Wed May 27, 2009 7:02 am

Tack wrote:Yes, the ohlins has a much greater range of adjustment but more importantly, the valving in rebound will have a far greater effect on handling in the slower shock absorber speed range.


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Re: Shock Dyno sheets

Postby Tack » Wed May 27, 2009 6:54 pm

Stereo wrote:
Tack wrote:Yes, the ohlins has a much greater range of adjustment but more importantly, the valving in rebound will have a far greater effect on handling in the slower shock absorber speed range.


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