I have toy'ed with shock building methods forever. You name it I have tried it. I found that the more they swell the worse the shock felt. I run mine about 4-6 weeks and then put in new seals. The more they swell the more resistance I felt. They just felt flat or slow like there was a suction or some thing. The seal is better but if you build the stock building method they only leak a bit at first. I top them off every race day after practice no matter what and bleed them, and man can you feel a difference just from practice to racing the suspension really reacts.

This rebuild I am going to try the white shim and see what happens. I will calibrate it. I have heard they are the same length? I will get back on this. Its new seal week for me. Matter of fact its diff week to. 4-6 on that to.

BTW I was swapping set ups on shocks last night at practice. The fella I was talking with uses the V2 cap with the old shock body. He leaves the top thin shim out when he does his shocks. He said it was smoother. I never had any luck with that unless I pre-soaked the rings. It leaks to much at first if I didn't.