[dradernh]

The exposition offered to us by bbnks2 is why I turn this over to professionals.

I've owned cars built by shops that build championship-level road-racing and autocross cars, and I've had those cars maintained by shops that operate at the same level. I've also had street cars built-up for track duty on road courses by shops with a record of producing winning race cars.

My thinking on this is that unless you really want to get into the physics of automobile suspensions (and there are important books on the subject out there to help a novice get started), it's way easier (and, I believe, cheaper) to hire a professional to do the task for you. In my experience, one upside to using those professionals is that they're quite willing to share their expertise with their customers.