Originally Posted by
YR4Dude
So you're saying that there are no longer any springs on the king pins? Also unless you're running outdoors on a very bumpy track, there really isn't that much suspension travel in the front end to justify all the dampening in that large mono shock.
I also don't see how the front end would "flop around" because it looks like a standard AE reactive caster front end with a big mono shock and torsion bar. The AE car doesn't have those and it doesn't "flop".
Well the amount of dampening would depend on what wight oil is used. The point to using a shock is the dampening would be more consistent than using grease or thick oil on the king pin. The shock isn't that large...it is the same size as the shock in the rear which is among the smallest you can make an oil filled shock that still works well.
The front end is not a standard AE reactive caster front end. It looks like it because the upper arm is the same...however the lower arms also move with the suspension instead of being static like other dynamic strut front ends. The reason it would flop around is because the shock does not attach to the chassis at all...it attaches to both of the lower arms so without the roll bar when the car rolls it would just pivot around the lower pivot points on the lower arm.