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      01-16-2024, 07:27 AM   #9
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So let's say you have an MCS-style shock and a linear spring for sake of argument... then you sequentially make adjustments such that the spring becomes increasingly compressed with each adjustment (the static ride height will change as this is done). We do this just up to the point of (but not attaining) coil bind.

In doing so, the preload increases with each successive adjustment? If so, does it do this approximately linearly? And therefore with each successive adjustment, the driver would perceive that end of the car to behave with increasing stiffness on compression (similar to if more bump was dialed in on the shock)? (Because the more preload, the more force is needed to be overcome before the piston starts to move, as M3SQRD explained in the other thread?)

Always been a bit confused about preload, trying to get this straight...
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