Torsion bars for better handling; your experience?

Haha, the hotchkis shocks are even stiffer if you're just bouncing on the car or trying to collapse them by hand.

But, keep in mind that those shocks are intended to be paired with heavier torsion bars and springs than stock and are meant to dampen faster movements than what you're putting on them if you just bounce on that suspension or try to collapse them hand. So those movements aren't necessarily indicative of how they act on the car.

As I said earlier, the ride quality of my car with 1.12" torsion bars was better with the hotchkis shocks than the bilsteins, but if you try to compress them by hand you'd think the hotchkis shocks would make it stiffer. Shocks act differently with different load inputs. Or at least the better ones do, because they have a lot of valving to change the dampening depending on how fast the oil in the shock is moving. Which changes with the size and speed of the input. Cheap shocks have less valving, so they act more linearly. If you compared how the KYB's acted when compressed by hand compared to the bilsteins or hotchkis shocks you'd make the wrong decision for what would be best on the car.