Anyway, LFS could use some dcent off-road special stages too, like those sand/gravel stages they have in WRC events. About time they maked LFS enjoyable for those who are fully aware that the earth is not flat (aka mostly UNPAVED), whilst seriously expanding our fanbase/palyer base/ market.
Those long travel systems are actually quite a marvel of engineering. With 3 springs, you can get as much as 36 inches of travel from Baja racers. There are all sorts of strategies to set them up, but here's just ONE way to set it up:
The 1st stage is a helper spring, designed to allow the suspension to droop as far as it could. The second is to support the car whilst normally level and provide moderate stiffness to absorb bumps without knocking your kidneys out. The final stiffest stage is meant for platform control and dynamic stability, whilst also reducing or cushioning suspension bottoming.
Just 1 possible strategy.
Oh, the current Pajero EVOs and all cars of its class in the dakar rally are all limited to WRC levels of travel (250mm), enforced with metla bump stops. The fact that such a huge portion of them survived the whole event was pretty amazing. With such "little" ravel, soft and soggy settimgs simply won't do, as they'll handle horribly and bottom out HARD way too often.
I remember top gear did a little test on a dakar rally style Landrover. It actually performed better than anticipated, especially after considering theat it was done on the same top gear course (by the stig of course) with OFF-road tires.
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