so here goes....

DTXC9004 are the rear shocks on my car, they are identical in every way to the anodished ones except cheaper and they dont have brown anodising.

DTXC9003 are the identical but shorter front shocks, they are great and awesomely smoothy. both of these shocks are prebuilt with 3 hole pistons and oil of about 25 weight in them, you will need a suitable spring with a rate 1.5 for the front as the stock yellow (rate 3) are too hard, i used shumacher springs for mine but this part will do ( DTXC9232 ) . these are bottom filling shocks and are vastly different to rebuild, so you will need to buy these spare parts bags for them (shock part set) DTXC9068 and (shock seal set) DTXC9056. The spare parts are useful and the shock seals are diferent to any others and if you break these then no others will go in there.

To mount these you will either need to make something up or you can put fuel tube over the standard mounting screws (the hole in the top of the shocks are larger than the standard screws and the fuel tube fills the gap and deletes the play) and put the shocks on these.

The setup that i have is 30 weight shock oil all round with the standard traxxas pistons in the back (they are 2 hole instead of 3) with the threaded rear shocks wound so that the rear arms are level, i have the 1.5 rate springs on the front and to lower the front what you need to do is take apart the shock and put around 10mm of fuel tube onto the shock shaft (this stops the piston from lowering all the way to the bottom of the shock and there for sitting the car lower, because when the piston lowers the shock gets longer, i just reread through this and need to clarify that the tube is inside of the shock with the oil) the front arms are level after you do this.

Then you need to move the battery up the front of the car to give the front end more weight and therefor more grip.

hope this helps!

Dann