triangulating rear shocks

wflaw45

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what are the pros? cons? i hear a pro is you can get more travel out of a shorter shock but a con that it will cause more body roll. what do you think about it?
 
You hear right. If you have the room to run them straight up and down you will like it better. Mine used to be angled in at the top and the back of my trooper would hop pretty bad. Now I have a set of bilsteins with 14" of travel mounted straight up and down and it works much better.
 
you want them angled in slightly so they don't go past 90°, but not angled in at a 45° or anything, you lose the dampening they provide.
 
There's nothing wrong w/ shocks being straight up and down. Most are designed to work that way. Being a few degrees in at the top won't hurt anything....but I wouldn't have no more than 2-3 inches difference from top to bottom.

FWIW - we usta design our racecar suspensions w/ the tops of both rear shocks tilted a few degrees to the right. That way, they would be straight up-n-down when the suspension was working in the turns.


Matt

oh yeah, w/ them in to far at the top you get more body roll....you move the support for the body weight closer to the middle. Just like carrying a tray a McD's. Hands on the outside edges make it easier to carry....on one hand in the middle....oops!
 
Lizooki said:
There's nothing wrong w/ shocks being straight up and down. Most are designed to work that way. Being a few degrees in at the top won't hurt anything....but I wouldn't have no more than 2-3 inches difference from top to bottom.
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Race cars don't have 14" travel suspensions either...

When the shock goes beyond 90°, it becomes all but ineffective. I experienced this on my own rig.
 
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