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Good evening. So you have a shock with a floating piston in a chamber charged with nitrogen used to pressurize the fluid. What are the advantages/disadvantages to using a spring behind the piston in place of the nitrogen?

Actually I was thinking about increasing the pressure to the rear brakes.

The car is an 01 Jetta. The ABS system is an electronically controlled OEM system that controls all four wheels. Each wheel has its own speed sensor. I believe the split is front to rear.

Where would you install, pre ABS controller or after? I am thinking before (being in between the master and the EBCU so that everything was working correctly. What say you all?

The most common problems with these engines are timing chain/tensioner/guide failures and engine failure caused by sludge blocking the oil pump pick up screen. If I remember correctly, the timing chain tensioner is oil fed and the sludge problem contributes to that.

That had some interesting information on it even though they were only concerned with dirt riding.

Which is a better configuration for use with the "mid-valve", a check plate and a spring or a shim stack? The application would be street/road racing. I have always seen a spring and a check plate, but I recently heard that Honda has ditched this on the CBR1000RR in favor of a shim stack. I...

The Barry Grant step down device is not very sophisticated. I thought it tied into the ignition and had some type of "map" based on RPM's, but all it has is a WOT switch and a manual bypass switch.

Barry Grant sells an electric control unit that drops voltage to the pump at lower RPM's for the same reasons you stated above.

It still has a regulator, it just has it in the tank. As for the pulse width question, I do not know.

I have seen the dampers. If I remember correctly, Chrysler had a recall on the Caravan to install the dampers. I would call the in the take configuration more of a bypass setup, similar to an OEM oil system than a return style system. A friend of mine is plumbing up a fuel injected motorcycle...

Thanks for your input guys. I have always thought that the return configuration was superior to a non return setup for the fuel temperature reason previously sited. The reason I asked this is that in the past few years I have witnessed fuel injected Japanese sport bikes go from utilizing a...

With a fuel pressure regulator you can go two ways, return type or non-return type. Without factoring in the ease of not have to plumb the extra line for the return style, which setup is better? Is one better for carbs vs fuel injection?

The company to deal with in the US id Millenium Technologies in Wisconsin.

It is not that I am saying not to try invent the wheel too much, is is more like don't try to re-invent them all at once as it is very easy to get overwhelmed. I think that is one of the things that really hurt Aprillia in their attempt in MotoGP. They just had to run all this high tech stuff...