tigeo
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Richmond, VA area
Been thinking a lot about this recently as I will be swapping in some H&R springs on my GSW after Christmas and likely will just use my ~year old dampers. I have read a $hitload on it with the consensus by many that it will be an issue b/c the dampers are longer/underdamped. I'm good on the underdamped concern..check. The stroke however should have no bearing - the damper stroke is linear i.e. the damping is the same for the entire length of travel. With a 1.5" shorter spring, the stroke is reduced but this shouldn't wear it out any faster...the wear I can see would be from the higher spring rate putting more stress on the damper's internals. You should be able to run say a Bilstein B6 just fine with mild lowering springs or the B8 which has a shorter length. In the static state, the dampers are already in a partial-travel state so it's not like with the stock springs they start at the top of the travel. Am I wrong?