Originally Posted by
teknorc
Could you be more specific about the inconsistencies? We've spent a lot of time and money trying to perfect our shocks and we're quite happy with where they are right now. For example, I rebuilt Austin's shocks before practice at the recent ROAR 1/8th ENats. We ran them the whole weekend without touching them. They were as smooth after A3 as they were for the first practice run. No air, no leaks, super smooth, etc.
well it seems that you build them they aren't too bad but then after a few races they seem to change. I will have the car looking good one day and the next raceday the car seems to be bouncing all over the place. the shocks seem to loose some "pack". I tried two different types of csi pistons, stock pistons, different spring combinations and nothing seems to work. for example. if I build my mugen shocks with 20mm of rebound I can race all weekend and they will be the same after the weekend. I build my tekno shocks with no rebound but after the weekend the car is sitting lower, harder, handles like a brick. now I took the shocks apart after maybe a dozen runs since I bought it and the shock shaft guides in the shocks are all destroyed and the shafts are "hanging". In two years with my old shocks I never had to replace those once. No disrespect here..it is an amazing car. xray had issues with the 808e shocks as well. I just think that I spend twice as much time with shocks tan I ever have before. I have been running rc cars since the Mrc Tamiya Hornet so I am not a "rookie" . Maybe post a video of you building the shocks?