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piggybacks tend to leak, if your serious on good shocks, search ebay for UE super shocks u only have to run 4 of them and you can get them for less than a set of piggybacks. I have them and i love em.
 
Cool. Any others I should be aware of? Also the rear shocks seem to be weaker than they used to be does anybody know why????
 
+1 for the traxxas Big Bore shocks I have them and had no problem, the stock plastic ones really suck...
 
yeah they do. But the guy before me put in 2 of some pink different ones. I will get a pic later.
 
big boraes but if you get big bores you wan put a difernt spring on them cause the ones they come with a super soft and you may wana pout a haver WT oil in them cause they onley come with a 30 or 40wt in them. i have big bores with 50wt oil and some blue springs for get where they are frome.
 
Need advise on shock adjustment. I'm running a narrower tire on the front wheels of my HYPER Go Car. When I'm turning briskly, the opposite tire and wheel comes of the surface about 1/4 inch. Should I go back the wider OE tire or is there a shock adjustment I can make to keep the opposite wheel on the surface?

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I don't know if they make them for your car.
You might need to get creative otherwise. You can bend them up yourself out of different size piano wire to tune them.
Making the mounts and links might prove more tricky still.
I didn't see them in a quick search. 😐
 
Hornet68 said:
Need advise on shock adjustment. I'm running a narrower tire on the front wheels of my HYPER Go Car. When I'm turning briskly, the opposite tire and wheel comes of the surface about 1/4 inch. Should I go back the wider OE tire or is there a shock adjustment I can make to keep the opposite wheel on the surface?

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Are you able to adjust the camber links at all?
 
RustyUs said:
Are you able to adjust the camber links at all?
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No. My cars don't have that feature. I took another look at the configuration I had with the narrow tires in front. They appear not to have the sidewall rigidity to maintain a positive shape for a brisk turn. They might be good for a drag car sprint but not for brisk turns. So, I reconfigured to the wider and more ridged wall OE front tires and cranked a few more turns-stiff on the front shocks. Will see how that goes. :thumbs-up:
 
Hornet68 said:
No. My cars don't have that feature. I took another look at the configuration I had with the narrow tires in front. They appear not to have the sidewall rigidity to maintain a positive shape for a brisk turn. They might be good for a drag car sprint but not for brisk turns. So, I reconfigured to the wider and more ridged wall OE front tires and cranked a few more turns-stiff on the front shocks. Will see how that goes. :thumbs-up:
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Just a note on turning the shock spring adjustment collars farther down on the shock bodies.... raising ride height may worsen things. I don't know which RC vehicle you have, but sometimes, no matter what you do to combat roll... you will have to give in and use some throttle control.
 
RustyUs said:
Just a note on turning the shock spring adjustment collars farther down on the shock bodies.... raising ride height may worsen things. I don't know which RC vehicle you have, but sometimes, no matter what you do to combat roll... you will have to give in and use some throttle control.
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Thanks for that tip. :thumbs-up: I have the HYPER GO Model 14210.
Based on your tip, I'll turn the collar to the top/OE position to run it.
 
Hornet68 said:
Thanks for that tip. :thumbs-up: I have the HYPER GO Model 14210.
Based on your tip, I'll turn the collar to the top/OE position to run it.
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On a positive note, your 1/14 scale off-road RC must have lots of traction. Trying to achieve high speeds on smoother higher grip terrain... lower your off-road aggressive tire ride. Traxxas has a pretty darn good suspension tuning guide. I know your RC doesn't have much adjustment, but keep that in mind with your next RC purchase. Adjustability will become more important as you start playing with larger off-road RCs with more suspension travel and weight.
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