Thread: Home brew shocks?

way to represent your company...


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yea...but the ignorant douche bag post with bad grammar deserved it.

meh...


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Originally Posted by LVbLaCkRaNgEr

TRD SRP suck it douche bag!

I'm sure your boss LOVES you representing yourself and his company in such an eloquent way online.

Originally Posted by 84prerunner

yea...but the ignorant douche bag post with bad grammar deserved it.

Sounds like insecurity..

Originally Posted by DuctTapeRacing

Sounds like insecurity..

lol. yea, right.

no people just like to bag on a company that have no experience with them.

Originally Posted by TRD SRP

foa are junk

More accurately, you have to know what you are doing with them. I have put together several sets and have had zero issues.

the foas on the fron of my truck have run and performed flawlessly since they date of purchase. the front of my truck handles some rough stuff and it soakes it up so good. with med to heavy valving with 350 over 500 spring rate i love them! thanks foa, plus when i needed parts they took care of me

I used to work for metal super markets and we sold a lot of hydraulic tubing that was honed on the inside wall and I alwase thought I could build some bad ass shock out of this.....dreams are becoming a reality looks like I'm gonna have to clean of grandpas lathe and mill I may have to try my hand at this....

So the idea of the solid piston is to force all the oil through the bypass tubes?

FOA's on my truck work great they soak up every thing I can throw at them. Btw

solid piston is not a good idea. you have to make a choice between allowing the shock to flow enough at high shaft speed so it isn't harsh, which will cause it to not have enough slow shaft speed control and the car will be loppy. or the other way around, it'll have low speed control, but it will have a max shaft speed, you will reach it, and it will hurt...


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That makes sense.

Originally Posted by partybarge_pilot

There was a truggy at Laughlin years ago with Kendall bypass's on it. They had a ball valve on one of the tubes to control flow. There was a small Morse cable running from it to a lever in the cockpit. Adjust on the fly.......

Holy shit I need to save that pic! Thanks Chris..........

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BTW, any idea who's car that was or what happened to it? I wanna say it was a TLR car........

Originally Posted by partybarge_pilot

Holy shit I need to save that pic! Thanks Chris..........



BTW, any idea who's car that was or what happened to it? I wanna say it was a TLR car........

I don't remember right now..... it'll come to me.

Originally Posted by motochris

I don't remember right now..... it'll come to me.

is it ironic that the foa emblem has flames above it

Originally Posted by ranger#1

is it ironic that the foa emblem has flames above it

Purely coincidental.

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Originally Posted by ranger#1

is it ironic that the foa emblem has flames above it

Hmmm.. it never occurred to me?

Limited edition logo for our KOH shirts this year-- FOA Shock Absorbers Mens T-Shirt

I started laughing my ass off when I saw your Avitar Chris.....if it was by accident it's even funnier!

Wish me luck...
Going to try an experiment, making 3.0 air shocks, will be adding a water jacket to keep temps consistent. Im thinking these will work better with a very large reservoir to keep the pressure jump from droop to bump less drastic, and maybe cantilevered so there's less overall shaft movement which will also decrease the pressure spike. Time to do some math, I suppose.
But I basically got a shaft, seal head and wiper seal ass'y for $65.
This is more of an experiment than anything else.

air shock to support the full weight or just to assist? what size shaft?

Originally Posted by 84prerunner

air shock to support the full weight or just to assist? what size shaft?

Hopefully to support the weight. It's a 2.125" shaft.

There was a guy walking out of the swap meet on SATURDAY at like noon with FOUR 3.0 Kuster 5 tube bypasses for $500.

Made me think of this thread.

That's a good buy. I got 4 last year for $600.00 but ended up selling 2 of them there for $600 so I got a pair for free.

Originally Posted by 85yota

That's a good buy. I got 4 last year for $600.00 but ended up selling 2 of them there for $600 so I got a pair for free.

where those the moster truck 20 inch kusters? if so i feel like a sucker for buying them from you for 600 bucks! lol

Originally Posted by k pizzle

where those the moster truck 20 inch kusters?

20" Kusters were probably off the original Duralast TT. And also stolen...........

Wasn't there a rock buggy build on here that was using them for mockup? Were they stolen before or after that?