I bought some hot racing shocks. Instead of oil I used some wheel bearing grease (already had it and it's marine grade lithium grease). I'm fine with that part, though I'm welcome to concerns and ideas, I also swapped the softer black springs on before I installed them, but I get a fair amount of compression while it's just sitting on the work bench. I understand having droop on a full size rig is great, but I'm wondering how everybody else has their rig setup. Do you guys run with some compression or keep the springs tight enough to keep the shock at full extension?
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Droop vs compression
- Thread starter Afterbang
- Start date
I prefer droop with micros 1/10 and well everything lol. It looks better in my opinion lowers the CG which helps all around performance though you will get high centered easier and bumpers may not clear obstacles as easily. But I think its well worth that sacrifice to clearance for the overall better performance. I like to balance it out around 50% droop so I dont give up too much clearance.
Trike Kid
RCC Addict
Front of my SCX24 is all droop, no springs at all, the rear I run the softest springs I had and no preload so it's almost entirely droop travel. Shocks at full extension is both stiff and top heavy, spend more time rolling over than driving.
aleckslara
Newbie
That’s some good info! Thanks for making the video and sharing.
Does that effect any other part of the crawling experience? Clearance or anything else?
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Yeah like everyone has said so far, droop is good for crawlers. How much droop can come down to preference though; on my crawlers, regardless of scale, I try to have at least about 50% droop set up. Like Humboldt said above, it's about weighing the pros and cons. A lot of droop can get you stuck high center more often, but you can overcome that a bit with heavier axles and most of your weight up front, making the car tend to tilt forward when high center. Also you lose some clearance in your approach since your bumper is lower, and the scratch marks on my bumpers will attest to that lol. But unless you're going drag racing, you don't want your shocks to sit at full extension while the car is one the ground, you always want some amount of down travel!
HailBoognish
Newbie
I'm running the double barrel shocks with shorter axial stock springs and it is quite a bit of droop but still enough compression to work well for faster speed stuff. If I were to have normal length shocks I would go full droop with no springs, the lower CG is nice to have.
aleckslara
Newbie
Oh! That’s a good idea, I have the double barrel shocks too, are you using the shock from the normal single barrel stock shocks?
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