Cerb 4.5 damper settings

[bashking]

Hi , Can anyone offer me any advice on the best damper settings on my cerbera 4.5. It has gaz golds fitted and is for road use only.
Many thanks.

Edited by Golden Spanners on Thursday 3rd November 23:22

[pmessling]

I have mine set to 16 clicks all round so relativity hard and suits me fine.

[Byker28i]

My nitrons are set quite soft. Something like 2 or 3 clicks under half way

[gerradiuk]

+1 Nitrons feels much better on 2 clicks.
I found any harder & the back was a bit skittish over rough(broken Tarmac) roads , quite scary at speed.

[gruffalo]

gerradiuk said:

+1 Nitrons feels much better on 2 clicks.
I found any harder & the back was a bit skittish over rough(broken Tarmac) roads , quite scary at speed.

Wow I find it really interesting how different people like their car set up, my Nitrons 4 clicks from hard on the front and 6 from hard on the back, car is absolutely planted. When I had them set on the soft side of half way the car squirmed all over the place.

[Byker28i]

gerradiuk said:

+1 Nitrons feels much better on 2 clicks.
I found any harder & the back was a bit skittish over rough(broken Tarmac) roads , quite scary at speed.

mine went that way after I had a little scare at Castle Coombe


I'd clicked them harder over lunchtime instead of softer to try to sort out the bumps at follys. They were quite hard anyway. The 4 tracks heading over the grass into the cut corn field are mine. The bumps totally unsettled the car and I left the track sideways at around 130. Note: put foot on clutch to correct the back end stepping out, don't take foot off the throttle!

Only thing damaged was my pride although I took a fair bit of mud to the pits with me

[bashking]

I have mine set on 10 clicks all round at the moment and find the car a real hand full on country roads especially as speed builds up, I have had a full geom set up carried out but it still seems difficult on anything other than a perfect road surface.

Does this sound like i need a harder set up?

[pmessling]

I also polybushed mine so with the 16 clicks maybe feeling a bit firmer. Haven't really experimented with the settings. I thought I would try a hardish setting at first and have stuck with that so far

[itiejim]

I'd look at spring rates. I was never happy with mine until I seriously uprated the springs - 500 lbs on the front and 450 lbs on the back makes the car so much better. You no longer feel the need to wind the damping up to maintain body control and the ride actually improves as the car is damped properly and sits better on the road.

Without any doubt, the best 100 quid I've spent on the car.

[gruffalo]

bashking said:

I have mine set on 10 clicks all round at the moment and find the car a real hand full on country roads especially as speed builds up, I have had a full geom set up carried out but it still seems difficult on anything other than a perfect road surface.

Does this sound like i need a harder set up?

10 clicks from hard on Nitrons should be OK but I find at what I have the car is absolutely planted, I was having problems of the car floating with a softer setting and on full throttle in third exiting Clearways at Brands it was starting to skip sideways so stiffened it up and now all is sorted.

The set up required will depend on driving style to a certain extent though.

[gerradiuk]

[quote=Byker28i] The bumps totally unsettled the car /quote]
JeeZ unsettled the car , I would a ride home in a Citreon if that happened to me! Make's my "Scary" seem whinny indeed. I like it a bit softer ,for me I get more of a feel whats happening instead of a sudden lurch off.

[FarmyardPants]

itiejim said:

I'd look at spring rates. I was never happy with mine until I seriously uprated the springs - 500 lbs on the front and 450 lbs on the back makes the car so much better. You no longer feel the need to wind the damping up to maintain body control and the ride actually improves as the car is damped properly and sits better on the road.

Without any doubt, the best 100 quid I've spent on the car.

Jim, do you have a link to the springs you bought? I've just tried unsuccessfully to navigate the Eibach site.

Sorry to hear you've sold your car btw

[itsallyellow]

Speek to Andy at APM. He will be able to source the spings, he will also be able to advise on spring rates etc. Andy has worked wonders with our race cars handling.

Mike

[FarmyardPants]

Seeing as Andy would probably be the one to fit them that makes sense

OT but big thanks to Andy for taking my car to bits at a moment's notice a couple of weeks ago

[itiejim]

These would do:

http://www.motorsport-sales.com/index.php?main_pag...

They need to be 2.25" ID, 500 lb front and 450 lb rear. For my Gaz Gold (Pro's?) I needed (9" free length all round.

[FarmyardPants]

itiejim said:

These would do:

http://www.motorsport-sales.com/index.php?main_pag...

They need to be 2.25" ID, 500 lb front and 450 lb rear. For my Gaz Gold (Pro's?) I needed (9" free length all round.

Thanks!

[DuncanM]

Just bought some of these, going for 500lbs front and rear.

Will let everyone now how they feel when I get round to fitting them .

Duncan

[itsallyellow]

I would be very careful specing your own springs....

Certainly not the same length all round on any of my cerbs....

[DuncanM]

itsallyellow said:

I would be very careful specing your own springs....

Certainly not the same length all round on any of my cerbs....

I want to experiment but will be careful.

Tvr originally specified stiffer rear springs and I remember a post from you saying you used to run stiffer at the rear in the past?

At the moment I'm running 400 front and 325 rear. I have ended up stiffening up the ride with the dampers as this is way too soft.

Regards

Duncan

[ridds]

You may get away with 500 rear for smooth roads and track but suspect they are little OTT.

My 405s make it a little oversprung tbh.