In the interest of bringing products more relevant to the MS3 market into this thread, I've searched to see what I can find regarding shock dynos for a few more brands:
Here's a plot for BC damper from a "BR Type" setup for an 8th gen Civic that were posted on another forum by a BC salesperson (note that this is only for one damper in each graph - 1 front damper and 1 rear damper - and for some reason one of the graphs is in metric units and one is imperial units, so making a judement about consistency across the dampers in a set cannot be made easily from these graphs):
And here's the thread I pulled it from (the thread was initially started as a discussion about a Stance setup):
Stance Coilovers Information - 8th Generation Honda Civic Forum
And for some contrast here are the dyno plots that KW has on their website that show the shapes of the damping curves and how they change with rebound and compression adjustment (I'm also trying to find some "independently obtained" shock dyno results for a KW setup as well right now):
Rebound:
Compression:
KW automotive North America Inc. Suspension -- Coilovers -- Shocks -- Springs
As you can see in the BC plots, there is really no compression damping adjustment to speak of, and the MINIMUM ratio of rebound:compression damping near mean velocity is roughly 2:1 (with an arguably useless 8:1 ratio at full stiff). It's no wonder people describe these things as bouncy/harsh, since the car is likely "jacked down" over sections of road/pavement with a series of small bumps and ends up riding on the bumpstops.
