Originally Posted by gotspeed_2000

It's kinda hard to explain how the hot bodies shocks and the mugen are. There's a cap for the lower end of the shock that has a hole that the shaft passes through. This cap, threads onto the lower end of the shock and retains the orings and plastic guides that are comon in shock seals of most r/c shocks. For me, for the seal to blow out would be less likely than that of c clip retained shocks. Especially over time, the newer shock cap retained seals would be more likely to survive longer without failure. If you look at hot bodies website online, you can look at the D8 or D8T instructions and can see how their system works. A friend was putting together a MBX6T and the shocks are similar in the seal retention to the HB big bores. It's not that a C clip design is lacking in performance, it's just one less thing that has a chance of going wrong with a newer design.