Hideeho
Fred, your comments about shock pack & looking @ Ty tessmans b4.1xl (in addition to a modified truck chassis he runs truck shocks & towers in the front) got me to thinking about shock length. What is the advantage of having shorter shocks on the front than the rear (there has to be some because everybody except Ty does it).

My guess (& it is strictly a guess) is that it has to do with a preference for greater shock travel on the heavier end to allow more time for the oil & piston to damp the motion. This leads me to the question if you have longer shocks (& travel) in the front wouldn't that allow you to tune the shock so it actually damps the motion instead of relying on pack to stop the travel? Wouldn't that make the front end smoother everywhere on the track?

My real quandary is why do 4wd buggies have longer rear shocks than front? They have much closer to a 50/50 distribution than a 2wd, but all of them have longer rear shocks than front (my agama has 110mm front, 163mm rear, yes they really are that big), so why not have very similar, if not the same, length shock?

From what I've seen (I don't race them, so I may have missed something) on road cars with 4 wheel independent suspension that is the same type setup on all corners have exactly the same length shocks (referring mainly to tc's as most others have effectively a live axle rear end). The t/e max has the same length shocks all around, but I hesitate to mention it as it is more a brasher than racer.