Standard Hawkeye Sti ‘Bouncy’
20 March 2011, 10:51 AM
#31
That sounds more like poor bump control to me. Its a problem with non-inverted monotubes. The gas pressure isn't high enough to avoid cavitation in a heavy compression, so the damper cavitates which makes it unable to oppose the compression and then the spring gets overloaded leading to bottoming. On bottoming all the energy is put into the tyre which acts as an air spring then the car rebounds (leaps up) off the compressed and undamped tyre. By that time rebound damping in the shock won't help you.
Still - the BC BRs are cost effective replacements for std struts, but I wish now I'd gone for something with adjustable rebound or try the inverted struts like you mention.
What put me off inverted struts was that I'd eventually get knocking like the std STi inverts do.
