New Front Shocks On The Brat Thanks To Evirob

[hoppi05]

Heres a few picks of the Brat with my new front shocks which were kindly donated by Evirob Cheers mate.... these are mounted on the team CRP mounts. and i have fully ballraced rebuilt the gear box with new parts all the wheel housing and mounts are brandspankers and i have got to say even with a very old stock 540 motor it goes pretty fast a lot faster than what it did when i was a kid... well heres some pics.

[Acto-Tuned]

Looking good. I'm thinking about doing the same thing with my re-release brat. Do you know what kind of shocks you are using?

Also could you measure the diameter/width of the shock body (with and without the preload adjuster)?

I have a spare set of Tamiya touring car shocks that I’m wondering if I can use.

[hoppi05]

I think they were from this user on ebay

ebay shocks

and the width with is 18mm without is 14mm (i measured these without taking them off so its a pretty good guestimate) and the overall lenght is around 65mm

hope that helps

[evirob]

I think they were from this user on ebay

ebay shocks

and the width with is 18mm without is 14mm (i measured these without taking them off so its a pretty good guestimate) and the overall lenght is around 65mm

hope that helps

You're welcome mate, great to see them in use!

Yeah, that's the ebay user I got them from.

I found the yellow springs a bit bouncy, so I switched them for the blue, although I'm yet to give it another bash.

[hoppi05]

you think... i think the yellow ones are pretty hard may give them a swap to the blue ones and see what the difference is?...

[evirob]

you think... i think the yellow ones are pretty hard may give them a swap to the blue ones and see what the difference is?...

Yeah, it's the stiffness that made it bouncy, I think. The softer blue should (hopefully!) absorb shocks better and stop the front end taking off, which is what I found happened with the yellow.

[hoppi05]

are now i see what you were saying, yeath they are really stiff, i havenot yet run it with them on but i am going to change them to the softer ones