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AFTER-SHOCK for the MAXX!

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**Our Engineers have done it again!!! Keep your eyes open for the ultimate solution to high speed turning, and massive improvement in handling both before and after those "big-air" jumps. We can't give away all of the details... but be prepared for the "AFTER-SHOCK"(Patent Pending). It will be available in the very near future, and it will work on both the old style T/E-Maxx as well as the NEW TRX 2.5 (Shown with optional High Performance Shock Tower)
 
I seen that it my last rag mag and was wondering how effective that could be if it can be mounted to the STOCK shock towers. I guess I dont get it.
 
Originally posted by Hunter
Is it only on the front???
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Good question because the issue with highspeed turning for me is keeping the inner rear planted when i make HS turns.

Also C I dont know how that could work with stock mounts from the looks of it. Did you read that in your mag? Also it looks like one shock on each side is mounted to the stationary shock mount and then 2nd is mounted to a pivot that is mounted to the shock tower then it both second shocks are mounted the the shock on top. X
 
I read it in Car Action and got the link rctricks.com
 
This is an overhead shock. The normal shocks are all mounted in their normal positions. There is an additional set of turnbuckles that run from the lower A-arm to the pivot mounting on each side of the overhead shock. The concept here is to add some additional dampening to the front suspension to help keep the front wheels (the steering) on the ground. It also helps with taking big landings. Think of it as an overhead mounted sway bar with a shock as the sway bar.

Is it worth it? I don't think that there is any real advantage to this set up. It does look pretty cool, but I'm thinking that if you have your suspension set up properly, this is just additional weight. I might be wrong, but I doubt it.
 
So its the same thing as a sway bar then right?

If 2 are stationary and two are on the pivot, then, only either right OR left turns will be corrected. Not both. Hell men, I can't figure it out. I did real well in physics but I wasn't a physics major. Anyone?
 
There is only one shock on the pivot, the overhead shock. The normal four are in there normal positions on stationary points on the shock tower. Read my my post again, I believe I described it accurately for you.

If any of the original four shocks were on the pivot along with the overhead shock, you would lose the advantage of three shocks all in one shot as they would all be playing against each other and none of them would really be dampening anything against a fixed point on the truck.
 
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After blowing up the pic so I could see it better it looks like a cantilever setup to me.
 
Exactly...now you see the way it works.
 
Thanks sky after taking a better look I notced it wasn't the shocks hooked to it like I thought. Instead there are turnbuckles my bad thanks for clarifing it. X
 

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