another shock question

[ixer]

mini late models
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=LOSB1289


-OR-

losi Aluminum MRC shocks
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=LOSB1439

how much shorter are the late models then the MRC aluminum shocks?
same diameter or larger, like RCbros?

 

[Captain Midnight]

Another possibility

It would be remiss of me not to offer up another possible choice.
Duratrax Vendetta shocks.
Some forum heavies have said some very good things about them.
They basically praise their smoothness but mostly they say that they don't leak!
I have a set but have not built and filled them yet so I cant add my own 2 cents yet but I got mine based on the recomendations of the same forum folks that I look to for advice about everything else to do with crawling..

 

[ixer]

i looked at those, can you use the stock mounting balls on the upper part? will the stock lower end work on them?

-OR-

do you mount them with fuel tube and a screw up top and just a screw on the bottom?

 

[Captain Midnight]

I haven't built/filled em so I haven't tried to fit them yet.
I got the shock mounts just in case I would need em.
Trace and JDawg have both said they use the stock losi spring retainer and end on their rigs.