I hope some one out there can help me with my problem? I am running a ta04 that i recently upgraded to have ssl carbon upper and lower decks and ssl carbon front and rear shock towers. My problem is that after doing this the standard dampers seemed way too long and held the car way too far off the ground even after trying different internal spacers holes on the towers etc... the only way i have found to remedy this prob is to use the tamiya super mini shock units which work fine but i now want to upgrade to low friction shocks and they all seem the same lenght as the standard dampers am i missing something or are there dampers that are low friction but same lenght as the low friction ones? any help would be great

I'm running a Ta04 R
i have screws on the inner rear an front arms of the car by adjusting these.. can lower or raise the car ....... do u have these ??
if so by tightening it it should lower the car .....
im not sure it this would help or not ... but that my sugestion

hope it helps

Sounds like you didn't bother comparing your new SSG shock
towers to your old ones?? Holes are in different place?


You need to use Tamiya's "Short" springs on standard CVAs.


The Super Mini CVAs only ever come in plastic.

Bran713, you race @ the hill dont you? you should have a word to Rodney coz he has an 04 with ssg and he may have had the same problems. speak to him and find out what he did!

Try the shorter springs and make sure you are using the shorter shock rods too.
My TA04R came with slightly longer rods than the set of trf shocks I later bought. I know you can also get the rods seperately as a spare part.

P.S - I never use the grub screws to adjust ride height, I use the shock collars.

sounds like your springs are too long. the tamiya hard tuned springs are a perfect for your 04 so get some and check out other ppls cars as well. BTW I have used both carbon and plastic towers and there is no shock length difference.

there is a difference between the normal CF towers and the SSG towers

yep - the lower-down holes/shocks give you potential to get
more droop. With the higher holes the shocks will bottom out
waay before the arms/droopscrews reach their bottom.

Adam,

Has the pro4 arrived. Are u going to run it at the hill!!

hasn't arrived yet. expectiong it soon. i will be be running @ the hill. Don't mind if i ask?, but who are you?

Send me a PM if you wanna kepp it private!

To everyone that has given me suggestions i say "THANKS GUYS" i will in turn try all your suggestions and see what works i will keep you all posted as to what does and doesnt work cheers again