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Originally Posted by 4MuscleMachinesMan
Some are adjustable on compression only (when car dives downward) and some are adjustable on both compression and rebound (when car rises upwards after compression).
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Where did you see compression alone adjustable shocks? It's either rebound adjustable or bump & rebound. Rebound adjustability is what is nice for most doing street driving as the rebound setting allows you to set the shocks so that they control the spring (stiffer springs w/ too little rebound dampening on the shocks will result in a bouncy ride after the susp. is forced into bump and goes into rebound), double adjustability is nice for race cars but it's worthless if you don't know what the settings are and, very important, if all the shock settings compare to each other. Without a shock dyno graph (cold and hot) you won't know how the shocks compare to each other, for instance click 5 on one shock may be as stiff/soft as 6 on another. Set all of them to 5 and you won't have similar valving. I have custom valved shocks that have been dynoed, they were expensive but I hope they're well worth the money. Have been running rebound adjustable konis on most of my cars, they are great.