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Thanks for the great pictorial. I was lucky enough to work for a short time in the ride quality industry with Arvin-Meritor (Ok, you've heard of Gabriel, right?) I got to do some limited ride developement and competitor analysis, so I've had workbenches scatted with cool looking parts like that before... Also got to run a shock dyno quite a bit... if I could have talked them into it, I would have bought that machine before they moved it to Michigan, and I would have been a big name in aftermarket suspension guru right now as we speak... but it didn't work out that way. Maybe one of these days I'll get that buisness going... right now even the best known tuners in the buisness can't strap thier work to a machine and confirm that it was done right... or give you a before and after like they do in the engine buisness. I've spent a lot of time in the valve building room too... as far as I know, every company builds the valves by hand.... I've been in Kayaba, ARM, and Sachs, and like you mention, the person that does it can tell you the thickness of the shim by feel... and they can build 100 valves in the time it takes you to pull out a set of mics and measure one.

Thanks for the update. This is a mod I promissed I would perform after I blew up a transmission at Barber last year... but still haven't done. And, to add insult, I just bought the kit for my track bike, so the poor VFR is not getting all the goodies that it gets... sad. Some day soon.