Post #11
stan_306gti6 wrote:Pete - Do you actually notice a huge step up in performance with these? I would hope so for that price.
Its not necessarily about a massive step up in performance unfortunately. I'd love it if I was instantly 5 seconds quicker around Oulton with them, but I'm not!
Its more about chasing 10th's, been able to precisely dial in the car to a particular circuit, and to suit you're driving style. If you're going to set everything to 'somewhere in the middle' and leave them at that, you may as well buy a set of grp a pugsport shocks or similar and learn how they drive and adapt you're driving to get the most out of them.
I dare say, a well set up car with £10k's worth of Penskes on it, compared to the same car with KW V2's on it, may be only a few seconds faster around a circuit, but those few seconds, over a 30 minute/15 lap race race are the difference between 1st and 10th!
In all honesty, if I wasn't putting them on a btcc car I would never have spent £1500 on two rear shocks, but it was as much a case of 'what does the car deserve', as much as 'I feel the need for 3 way shocks'!
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Oulton Park in a BTCC 306 vid 1
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