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How can raising the centre of gravity improve road handling and stability? Did I miss that lesson at engineering college?
 
Wimblowdriver said:
How can raising the centre of gravity improve road handling and stability? Did I miss that lesson at engineering college?
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If like they say your vehicle runs heavy all the time then it will help, and it wont be 50mm higher with weight in it, a bit like heavy duty springs.

Oh , and you mistake the CoG for the Centre of Mass Height / Weight. You might just have missed that lesson.
 
lynall said:
Std term in the motor trade, very rare to hear anyone call them by their correct term.
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Not where I work, could be a regional thing? I have heard people call them shocks but shockers isn't something I hear a lot of, except maybe on forums.
 
nobber said:
Not where I work, could be a regional thing? I have heard people call them shocks but shockers isn't something I hear a lot of, except maybe on forums.
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Nah hear it all the time, was the same up Norfolk just slower!
Get me a pair of rear shockers please mate, or get me a pair of rear shox please mate.
Nsr shock please mate.

In fact cant remember the last time I heard the word damper in relation to er supension dampers.

Im going to try it at work shortly and see what funny looks I get, I say old man could you possibly get me a pair of rear dampers, thanks old bean:D
 
Interceptorxj said:
And why would you think damper is the "correct term" when shock absorber is the term used by the huge majority of people including all suppliers and manufacturers?

Damper: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damper_(flow)
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As far as I'm concerned the shock absorbers are the springy bits that support a vehicle and absorb shocks imparted by the road surface.
Dampers are the long thin bits that are used to damp down, or regulate the amount of bouncing around the springy bits will impart to the part of the vehicle that I sit in and give a smoother ride.:D:D:D
 
frog hopper said:
As far as I'm concerned the shock absorbers are the springy bits that support a vehicle and absorb shocks imparted by the road surface.
Dampers are the long thin bits that are used to damp down, or regulate the amount of bouncing around the springy bits will impart to the part of the vehicle that I sit in and give a smoother ride.:D:D:D
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springs are springs ,shockers are shock absorbers or dampers as a few like to call them, and allways have been in the trade and the manufactureres
 
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Springs are used to suspend the vehicle on its axles. Shock absorbers are used to absorb the shocks presented to the vehicle from the wheels as the go over bumps. They also damp movement of the vehicle in response to axle movement.
They can be called shock absorbers, dampers, or even shock dampers, the name describes what they do so you're all right
 
Actually its the springs that absorb the shock, the dampers dampen the springs movement, that's how suspension works and that's why they are called dampers.
 
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