Thread: Front shocks

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When I built the`33 I used 23 degrees as a shock angle, the guy that bought the sedan from me said that it rides nice and handles well, although he did up grade the shocks as well.

406--fronts out toward the wheel is nice as for the leverage altho those look to be a little bit close to the bottom out point but I bet is a super deal for the leaf spring suspension


Rears---very close to a OEM setup probably used on billions of leaf spring rears and would be very hard to out engineer the set up you have----

Most of these things come frompeople cross mixing parts that are not compatible---the valving for a shock for a coil spring will always be different from a leaf ( and a single leaf front or rear is a different animal also

I'm with Jerry on this one, so many people lay them over because they look nice They don't seem to think about efficiency.

I used to have a chart on the wall that explained lay over and efficiency losses, If i remember right you lose 20% of the shocks efficiency for every 5 degrees they lay over, It always makes me laugh when i see cars at shows with the shocks at 45 degrees, they ain't doing jack

I also like the Bilsteins

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Don---the differances between your two cars is significant--one is probably around 45 degrees but in front of the axle--the other is more uprite at probably 20 degrees or less and behind the axle---If they were the same shocks-might be about the same dampening effect as the ones behind the axle would be stonger in dampening but more challanged by the rate to uspension travel---
the ones in front of the axle, while having a better rate would be subject to a severe change of percentage as the angle will be multiplied severely as the suspension travlels downward making the shock lay down--


And, yes , you pretty much have to go with what the mountings are , but the effects of the mountings are drastic---

Now if its a coil-over application the angles of operation will also cause the spring rate to vary (helps in roll as car leans)

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