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Making It Stick by Mike Kojima - All Installments from Modified Mag

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Old Dec 16, 2011 | 06:29 AM
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Making It Stick by Mike Kojima - All Installments from Modified Mag

For those who want a comprehensive primer to handling and modifying your suspension for improved handling, here is some great reading from Mike Kojima, mainly focused on sport compacts.

I know we have it around here somewhere already, but not all installments and they are all in different formats. Here's everything together.

Making It Stick Part 1: Four basic steps to better handling

Making It Stick Part 2: Four more steps to better handling

Making It Stick Part 3: It's all in the geometry

Making It Stick Part 4: More lessons in suspension geometry

Making It Stick Part 5: Damper fundamentals

Making It Stick Part 6: More advanced dampers
Old Dec 16, 2011 | 09:44 AM
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now, nice reading thanks man!
Old Dec 16, 2011 | 07:08 PM
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Old Dec 17, 2011 | 06:08 AM
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This is a great resource and should be stickied.
Old Dec 17, 2011 | 04:13 PM
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Edit..
Nevermind.. It's already in the stickies for those of you that don't read them..
http://forums.maxima.org/advanced-su...ics-links.html

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Ah yes, the forgotten part 5 & 6... But alas, no link to the mysterious part 7 of our trilogy. Fortunately Whiteline scanned and printed here -
http://www.whiteline.com.au/suspensi...egory=Articles
Old Dec 19, 2011 | 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt93SE
for those of you that don't read them..
Who, me?

Originally Posted by BEJAY1
Ah yes, the forgotten part 5 & 6... But alas, no link to the mysterious part 7 of our trilogy. Fortunately Whiteline scanned and printed here -
http://www.whiteline.com.au/suspensi...egory=Articles
It's not a trilogy if its got seven parts. That's a heptalogy according to Wikipedia.
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