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which coilover setup should i get: bilstein PSS9's or FK's?

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Old 03-05-2003, 01:53 PM
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Via degree of adjustability and the superior single piston self adjusting high pressure gas design.
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i disagree on the degree of adjustability, and "self-adjusting" is pure marketing...
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Default I don't sell them, but degree of adjustability on the PSS9s compared to specially valving Konis is a

foregone conclusion. The mono piston high pressure design is not a falsehood.
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Default i never said a monotube, single piston high pressure damper is a falsehood...

..but the term "self adjusting" is.

All linear dampers by nature are self adjusting. Bilstein starting marketing them as "self adjusting" becuase they were catching crap that other dampers were adjustable, and theirs were not.

Which really begs the question, if the Bilstein damper is superior with it's "self-adjusting" design, why make an adjustable damper like the PSS9/PCS?

In terms of which range of adjustablilty is greater, that's nothing that a damper dyno can't solve.
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Default Agree. Except that the PSS9 is made for serious track junkies. The amount of people who will be

able to properly dial them in to max usage capacity per specific event needs are probably under 100 worldwide.
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