Originally Posted by
CraigMBA
I'm not contending anything. Dampers (shocks) take kinetic energy and convert it into heat via friction created by passing a piston through the oil bath. That oil heats up, how much is relative to how much heat is being dissapated and for how long.
Problem is, it puts a lot of weight way up high in the chassis that may not need to be there. Paul from X factory explains why big bore shocks might not be the hot ticket in all applications in this video:
True, but E buggies don't run 45 minutes.
Look, there's probably a knee point in there where (work X time = optimum bore size, where a rougher track or a longer race makes the bore size bigger).
I'm not saying big bores aren't an improvement, I'm not saying they are. Without a dataset from a shock dyno one way or the other, it's just speculation.
Full sized racers have had this stuff figured out for a very long time.
bigger shocks are better!!! yea there is a point where they weight to much but 50% of the people run there car to light. for the weight being high is not as bad as you think it add more grip( sometime to much grip will make you flip) but you can easily fix that by lowering your roll center with the camber link. but it not worth $100 for that small of a gain. the foam you put in your tires would play a bigger role.