email malcolm@canecreek.com. He is the brand manager for CCDB and has a spreadsheet/database of settings and should send you some. Could try the advanced forum search on here as there are some old threads where owners have posted settings (standard search box is useless but the advanced actually finds stuff).
I have a CCDB on an Alpine 160, cant remember settings off top of my head as I havent touched them in a year, but I started with Malcolms and added a fair bit of LSC to get rid of the “trapdooring” on slow rolling stuff, and a bit of either HSR or HSC to get rid of a slight flat tyre feeling on some fast corners. Didnt change the settings massively from recommended though.
They recommend quite a lot of sag, and a lot of peoples criticisms of CCDBS comes (in my opinion) from them being used to air shocks with too little rebound. CCDBS are described as “dead” when people want “poppy”, which is a way of saying the CCDB works as suspension should but theyve got used to working around (and to some extent exploiting) the typical air shocks characteristics.
Ti spring should make no real difference, spring rate is spring rate and any damping characteristics of the spring metal will be totally overwhelmed by the shock itself. It does drop a stack of weight and look pimp though 😎
cant help you with animal excrement I’m afraid!