dannyg_m3 said:
HI, I'm running these dampers too.
Very happy with them.
My Geo is
-2.2 camber all round
0 toe at the front
a bit of toe in at the rear.
I need to check my damper settings as I set them to KW standard settings and then played with them no end to get the car to handle better. I'm suffering with a lot of oversteer at the moment, however reducing the rear compression and increasing the rear rebound yesterday at Bedford made an improvement, so it's more playing around for me yet!
I'll post my settings later in the week.
Dan
Oversteer is more likely to be the result of your geometry rather than from your damper settings, therefore I think it's unlikely that you'll be able to dial it out with changes in bump and rebound on the dampers.
The only reason why you have specific static geometry settings is to account for the change in attitude of the car during movement, particularly changing direction laterally. Ideally, you want the tyres to have the greatest contact patch with the road surface at all times, and creating static negative camber is done in order to be sure that when the wheel is on the outside of a turn, with some bodyroll, the wheel becomes vertical, so that the contact patch is across the full width of the tyre. Since you've uprated your suspension with KW Clubsports, you will have reduced the lateral bodyroll, therefore, there is less need for static negative camber.
Increasing negative camber encourages the car to bump-steer, which makes the handling twitchy. Likewise, toe-in tends to make the car drive straight ahead, whereas, toe-out makes the car turn-in rapidly, therefore running zero toe with -2.2degs of camber all round will make your car rotate a bit too sharp.
If you really want your Z4M to benefit from the upgrade to KW Clubsports, I suggest that you reduce negative camber all round, particularly at the rear, and as said in my earlier post, increase caster and reduce camber at the front. Likewise, set the front bump and rebound stiffer than the rear, and try setting the rear rebound reasonably soft.
IMO, you want the car to handle neutrally, so that you can play around with the handling at the limit using the slip angle of the tyres, whereas, oversteer and understeer rapidly take your car beyond that phase.
