Originally Posted by
Ricardo_d99
they angle the shocks because of two things , it gives the shock more leverage on the arm and with more leverage you have to run harder shock/ spring package than you would with convencional geometry therefore resulting in less side to side roll and overall more traction, on TC it has never been implemented because it would overheat the tires quicker ( or maybe not since there’s no roll or weight transfer) but it would interesting to see how a TC with very little roll would perform compare to the likes of the awesomatixs and Xrays.
It has the same effect as using progressive springs and progressive damping (angle of shock to arm changes more over the range of travel). Seeing as lots of people run progressive springs I don't see why nitro style shocks (harder spring but more laydown to create same initial rate) aren't more common.
Of course, with laydown shocks you lose the option to make them 'non-progressive'.