Scorcher Shock

[TWINSET]

I'm in the process (still) of building my scorcher up, and was going to put coilovers on it - anyone know what are the best alternative parts?

It came with coilovers on the front, but they're too short so the suspension doesn't work properly - lower arms don't reach stops on extension.

Cheers a lot

[SJoerD]

I hear Hornet shocks are used for this quite often. I'm not absolutely sure as I haven't done this. (Quite difficult without having a Scorcher (STILL!) and Hornet Shocks... [xx(] )

[TWINSET]

Cheers Sjoerd

I was actually considering maybe touring car shocks (aluminium and colours too), are any the appropriate length?

[Bibbo]

All you need are some washers for the end of the damper rod, some springs from a hardware shop and some rings for the shock bodies, to act as a top stopper for the spring. Should'nt be too difficult to make/get.

The ring for the shock body would be the most difficult. Could just use aluminium and drill a hole in it the same diameter as the shock body then put a thread in it for a grub screw to hold it in place.

VVVWWWAAARRR LLLAAARRR!!...

Easy eh?!!..

[TWINSET]

Hey Bib

Whatever's in that bottle, stop drinking it[]

I don't have the original dampers, so it's a case of trying to find;

a) A shock that extends far enough for the suspension travel

One that compresses the necessary length

3) Something in blue or black with coloured springs[8D]

Not worried about threaded pre-load adjusters or any of that tosh, just going for pretty.

[njmlondon]

This RR on ebay has shocks on all 4 corners... looks quite good I think... you could always email him and ask him which ones he used...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...9&category=2565

[Dazmeister]

I have Kyosho Option house shocks that would have come from the front of an Optima Mid on mine.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/getuserimage.asp...05121_2_350.jpg

The rears are just TA02 plastic dampers.

All works ok.

Darren

[Shodog]

quote:Originally posted by njmlondon

This RR on ebay has shocks on all 4 corners... looks quite good I think... you could always email him and ask him which ones he used...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...9&category=2565

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These look like the HB touring car shocks. If I am not mistaken, the original dampers are fairly close to 3 inches. Touring car shocks are a tad shorter so your not dgoing to get all the suspension travel you need up front. You will never get the suspension on a SRB to function as well as an RC-10. The touring shocks don't really look scale. I would try to get a set of Hornet rears and try to adapt them to an SRB.

On my own RR I use the stock dampers but I have the CRP coil over kit. I see these on Ebay from time to time. they are not all that costly.

[miramar]

Tamiya # 56503 Tractor Truck Oil Shocks are suitable as "scale" looking dampers for the SRB rear suspension.

Here's an old thread on it:

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/topic.asp?...archTerms=56503

[netsmithUK]

I just got myself a set of these Truck oil shocks for one of my SRB - no coil over but they look sweet. I'll post pictures when I eventually fit them to something

[jacolouw]

I have a NIB set of shocks for the SS/RR/XLT available if you are interested - LMK

JAKes