Cheers.Dox -
That's correct.
Viv -
Use the comp adjuster/floodgate to set your lsc/hsc relationship, not the speedstack. Parts b and c form the return valve, not necessary once the rest is gone.
The detent balls are fixed in the adjuster, never seen them fly out. Removing them would probably take some hacking away with a drill, although personally I'd keep them there and fine tune with oil weight if really needed (you can usually achieve what you want with the adjuster as-is and gate anyway), because the adjuster can get bumped around more easily with no detents.
The logical explanation here would be that you had your floodgate set too light (nut too far down, blowoff too early) with the hard/stock spring tube; and the floodgate too heavy with the soft/modified spring tube, perhaps in an attempt to compensate for the fact that the compression damping was regressing too easily (or more easily than it used to).What I feel is a little bit the opposite of your graphs. The hard plastic spring feels like almost no HSC after blowoff, the soft plastic spring feels overdamped at HSC after blow-off.
That's exactly the way I have to change it to get the same force to switch from LSC to HSC after making the spring tube softer. And that was exactly my intention to make the spring softer, as I felt the silver plate needs a better contact to the blue piston (to get it working more constantly) without increasing the blow-off force.The logical explanation here would be that you had your floodgate set too light (nut too far down, blowoff too early) with the hard/stock spring tube; and the floodgate too heavy with the soft/modified spring tube, perhaps in an attempt to compensate for the fact that the compression damping was regressing too easily (or more easily than it used to).