09-07-2018, 12:19 PM
(08-27-2018, 04:58 AM)DBM_imp Wrote: Does anyone have a picture or illistration showing the 2014 damper rods? Im thinking about drilling the compression holes slightly bigger, and running 15 wt. fork oil with the spring preload full stiff. This should free up the compression to help with the harshness on bumps and slow down the rebound to control the stiff spring setting. Which holes are the compression control and which holes are the rebound control?
Hey DBM,
the larger holes towards the bottom of the damper rod control compression damping, in conjunction with the oil weight of course. The smaller holes towards the top of the damper rod serve for rebound damping.
I don't know of anyone who has had success messing around with enlarging the holes. Although it will alter the effective damping it won't correct the 'bad' behaviour whereby there is not enough damping for slow bumps and too much damping for fast bumps. Fitting emulators requires the compression holes in the damping rod to be enlarged so that the emulator takes full control of the damping through its smaller holes plus the spring release mechanism. Rebound then becomes adjustable simply by altering the fork oil weight. This is definitely the least expensive method to create an adjustable front end that actually behaves like a much more expensive set of forks. If you're interested in how they work the folks at Racetech have a great technical description on their web site:
http://racetech.com/HTML_FILES/DampingRodForks.HTML
(09-07-2018, 12:04 PM)Houtman_imp Wrote: I think that with the Adreani's you can not go back to stock as you have to ' grind ' of a ridge on the old forks to make them fit.
Yep, but they are worth the commitment.
here's a link to a post where I have loosely explained the process:
http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12036