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Originally Posted by richiekuk
Cheers Chris. I sort of get it now. Why do people weld up the rebound hole on the damping rods and extend the compression holes?
Richie K
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Extending (enlarging) the compression holes is easy, it is to make them in-effective and allow oil to flow un-restricted. The emulator then takes over compression damping duties.
Welding up the rebound hole is full of debate. The idea is that the SV forks are underdamped, so that needs to be increased. Closing the rebound hole means that oil has to force / leak it's way past the valve assembly (I think) which slows the rate and so increases damping. Lots of folks argue that this is imprecise and a waste of time. In general for road riding this is overkill IMO.