Dirt Missile rebuild begins

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I have the shock dyno sheets for both the Sutton spec'd and Smitty spec'd valving now in my shocks. For me, it wasn't as much about taking rebound out as it was about adding compression. To my knowledge, Ron has never even ridden in a car on an autocross course and I now believe he really doesn't understand just how much force we put on these suspensions and how fast it happens.

Having rebound is good as you do need to tie the suspension down for a set amount of time, but more importantly for my case is compression as we need to slow down the way the front compresses so it doesn't slam at the bottom and shock the street tires causing loss of grip.

Ron used to tell me to soften front compression when I'd tell him it was pushing because he thought the front wasn't traveling enough, when in reality the push was from the suspension bottoming out and shocking the front tires.

Chris watched me run on course 1 time and immediately had me go full stiff on low and high speed compression on Ron's shocks and it helped tremendously. The shocks got sent back to Ridetech the next week for revalving.