Dampers aren't even springs. They're just a tube filled with oil or nitrogen. They restrict the movement of your suspension which are the real springs. I think when you can visualize that it'll be much more logical on how to tune your dampers.

Telemetry won’t be featured in this series. These vids are designed to be accessible to everyone and to help with feel based setups. I have about 50 videos that feature it though if you’re interested.

We’ll get there.

Thats awful. Can you return it?

Same axle, but I would use rates on the screen instead of incriminates to confirm. This way the energy absorbed going over track bumps keeps the chassis more stable. The bump controls the unsprung weight, rebound controls sprung weight.

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FWD cars are tricky. The weight transfers are similiar, but the purpose may not be. In a RWD car, adjusting dampers in the rear are used to control power delivery. In a FWD car the rears are basically a passenger as all the business happens in the front. For FWD cars I would adjust the rear dampers (and tire pressures) to control off throttle rotation and traction.

@@Steelcast27 It's weird. I find that having stiffer rear bump dampers and/or springs make the car understeer more. It may depend on the chassis design and weight distribution of the vehicle as well however. The rear wheels aren't receiving any torque from the engine so the rear tires will eventually gain traction anyways. So by making the rear springs or rear bump dampers stiff, there may be a moment where the rear tires have trouble finding traction but eventually grip up anyways leading to less rotation. I may just match springs and bump settings to the vehicles weight distribution, but I'll stiffen rear anti roll bars and rear rebound to get the car rotating. So far it seems to work quite well in different games, from FH4 to GT7. I find that in racing, suspension acts as sort of like a buffer in between our inputs and the vehicle's reactions. If the suspension is too stiff, we get quicker weight transfer but the tires may be more prone to losing grip especially when combined with a very aggressive racing style. So even our driving style can act like a buffer just like suspension but through different means. When we're too harsh with the steering, brakes or gas, we tend to lose grip very quickly. When we smoothen our inputs, the tires are able to keep their grip because we are making sure the weight isn't being transferred as quickly. Almost the same way how soft suspension slows down weight transfer. So in a way, stiffening the front doesn't just mean we increase the understeer tendencies of a vehicle, but we are making it so that the forward weight transfer is quicker. I believe Carrol Smith has stated in his Tune to Win book that, up to a point where the suspension no longer moves, stiffening front bump resistance makes a vehicle turn in more. So it really depends on how we make use of the weight transfer.

No motec. Racing Sim Tools is what ai use.

The reason I chose AMS2 to do what I do is because mechanically, the the sim behaves as you would expect based on real world principles. I know its not popular to say this as it usually goes over the head of would be sim "critics", but its true. Everything in this video reflects real world mechanical principles, regardless of sim. It was explained to me in this way early on, and this resonated with me. Imagine a damper on the ground in front of you standing straight up. Push the damper down with your hand. A stiffer damper would required more force through your hand to get it moving and the pain you feel in the palm of your hand is the load. In other words, the speed of weight transfer. The softer damper will give. Same weight transfer, but slower, less pain in your hand. Same with rebound, but with your fingers as you try to pull it up. Imagine a tire connected to the damper. If you pull up the damper with the same force and pain through you fingers, the tire will stay on the ground more the softer the damper. However...if you introduce aero into the equation it changes some things. If your car requires a stable aero platform, in the rebound phase, aero is actively pushing the car back down. Rebound stiffness keeps the car down, allowing the car to remain in its optimal aero "window". In non aero cars, this downward force (ahem downforce) does not exist. So in aero cars, as with ACC (which features a self proclaimed "sophisticated" aero model), keeping a car in the rebound phase and in the optimal aero window is key to load. But is not mechanical load. Its aero load. As you can surmise, aero and downforce windows overshadow mechanical concerns in a lot of ways. From a sim racing development perspective, emphasis on aero can indeed overshadow mechanical flaws as well. In AMS2 the slower you go (less aero), the more mechanical concerns take over, as in RL. Online sim racing guides you find will filter you to the principles (aero/mechanical) that most effect their cars. In AMS2 its simple. The slower you go, the more mechanical, the faster you go the more aero.

Go to options, gameplay, display and change from increments to rates.

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I know we're talking about AMS2, but correct me if I'm wrong. I think you said it relates physics wise the reason why you're most interested in AMS2. Thanks 27

Stiffer rear rebounds will give the car more turn in. In the rebound phase, stiffer means less load in a non-aero car. Less load in rebound transfers more load to the other tires, in this case the fronts.

@@Steelcast27 oh ok thanks for your help man

It depends on your issue and how severe it is. Springs for big entry or exit issues. Arbs for mid corner rotation. Dampers for influences.

@@Steelcast27 Thanks. Looking forward to that flow chart!

Common misconception. Stiff Rebounds slow the extension but transfer load quicker. Soft rebounds allow the tire to maintain the track better and thus, keep the load. A tire that is off the ground because the rebounds are too stiff transfer the load to the other tires.

Stiff rebound slows down weight transfer, leading to more grip. Stiff rebound can lead to grip loss if wheels are being lifted off of the ground. Both of you are correct. Increase rebound stiffness for more grip, but make sure it's not too stiff. This is not explained well in the video however.