Quote Originally Posted by itix View Post
Well I assume that they want to be the best at some point and I am guesstimating now but different dampers must work differently so if you chose one manufacturer you can't just swap in the future and expect the car to react the same.

If they found out that BOS was a limitation in the future they can't just put Reigers instead and expect them to work.

That's why I thought that selecting a company because you know them is bit silly.

Tommi isn't stupid so I hope that's not what he has done.

hördu, everybody knows what's inside the others...Everybody would be crazy NOT to know..
There are only so many ways to skin a cat.

Way back when Kenta Öhlin there at pappas Öhlins Mekaniska Verkstand in Sollentuna when he was designing his stuff and VM250 rider Tea-Leaf Hansen from Upplands-Väsby was being the "test victim" there were on one big table all disassembled and laid out dampers from Torleifs works Kawasaki (KYB hand built), KYB series tillverkning, works KYB from Yamaha, Showa, production bike Bilstein, production car Bilstein, Koni, White Power from Holland (modded car Bilsteins) and maybe some others..
All laid out and everything measured, and examined and tested for strength---shock shaf into vise and a big long ring-nyckel ove one end and then BEND! Bilstein shaft was 10mm...production Öhlins were 14mm---which is several times stronger..

So no real secrets..

Much more important is the openness of the mind of whoever is in charge...Some "vet allt" and are compelled to have their way, some listen...and know that more is done better thru cooperation...
Tommi Has a relationahip with somebody , that's important because he has a very hard head and even engineers have egos--hell even machinists/fabricator guys (like me) have egos and thick heads..So relationship first, then they can make anything.

(My bossback then, Peter Strandh, also (like ever single person at Öhlins) was from Upplands-Väsby (and everybody was in UVMK) had the subcontract to make the automated welder to weld the bottom eyelet forging onto the shock tubes....so we were there many evenings when the prototype stage was going over to production. I still make suspension 40 years later..)