how to lower a rc18t
01-01-2007, 08:11 PM
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RE: how to lower a rc18t
If you are willing to disassemble your shocks, you could put a couple of old shock o-rings on the shock's shaft inside the body. I did this when I was racing my RC18's on carpet. I used to run with 2 o-rings per shock but you could use only 1 if 2 was too low. If you can get past the upside down shocks (I tried this for a short time and wouldn't recommend trying it) Here is a pic of one of mine with 2 o-rings inside.
01-02-2007, 11:10 AM
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RE: how to lower a rc18t
It doesn't really stop the leaking. It slows the leaking down with gravity.
Flipping the shocks so that the body side is down adds the extra mass/weight of the shocks body and oil to the suspension arms. Greatly increasing the weight of the arm. So now the effort required for the suspension to dampen is greatly increased with this added mass. This as a result inhibits the shocks ability to quickly absorb the bumps on the surface being driven. If not being absorbed by the shocks, the truck will instead repell or bounce and break traction and stability.
When the shocks are mounted correctly with the shaft side down, this less weight applied to the suspension arms will help to allow the suspension to travel more freely. This is done by shifting the weight of the shocks body and oil to the chassis instead of the arms.
Now I know that someone out there is going to point out that if we walk outside and look at our "real" cars we will see that these shocks are indeed mounted with the shocks body down. But noone seems to point out that our "real" cars weigh well over a ton while our RC18's weigh in at 540 grams. And at this scale a couple of miss placed grams will severly affect performance.
Flipping the shocks so that the body side is down adds the extra mass/weight of the shocks body and oil to the suspension arms. Greatly increasing the weight of the arm. So now the effort required for the suspension to dampen is greatly increased with this added mass. This as a result inhibits the shocks ability to quickly absorb the bumps on the surface being driven. If not being absorbed by the shocks, the truck will instead repell or bounce and break traction and stability.
When the shocks are mounted correctly with the shaft side down, this less weight applied to the suspension arms will help to allow the suspension to travel more freely. This is done by shifting the weight of the shocks body and oil to the chassis instead of the arms.
Now I know that someone out there is going to point out that if we walk outside and look at our "real" cars we will see that these shocks are indeed mounted with the shocks body down. But noone seems to point out that our "real" cars weigh well over a ton while our RC18's weigh in at 540 grams. And at this scale a couple of miss placed grams will severly affect performance.
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RE: how to lower a rc18t
ORIGINAL: golfcarterforlife
make the shock oil lighter and put weeker springs on.
make the shock oil lighter and put weeker springs on.
What you want is a stiff spring with light oil
So when you have you shocks in the rite position it wont bog out and you go over a bump and it will turn flat
