Shock Mods

[Bluelock1]

Hello

What shock mods are best?

i have read about different shafts, pistions and, bodies?

what is the best combination? and where to get them from?

cheers

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[Andy Moore]

The only thing I would do it buy yokomo caps. Read the tutorial for bleeding them on rayspeed's website, I believe its written by Adachi.

[jcb]

You could try the Shock towers that are produced by Atomic Carbon for the S4. These change the geometry of the shocks which help a great deal on bumpy tracks, and are a direct fit on the BJ4.

They are used in conjunction with Losi shocks, (can't remember the body and shaft lengths at the moment) though I am sure there is setup info for associated shocks on the Atomic Carbon website.

[illebille]

hello!
i can't find the tutorial andy mentioned for bleeding the yokomo-caps. can someone please help me? thank you!

[illebille]

the BJ4WE is my first high-tech-car. i might be asking silly questions but i can need every help that i can get.....

when nobody knows where to find the tutorial, maybe somebody can write what is important when using the yokomo-caps. how do they change the damping-characteristics. what is the best way to bleed the dampers?

thank you!

[Juddy]

Hi mate if ya go back on the rayspeed website and click the bit about building the b4 ( in the tech tips bit, read it all its applicable) you'll find the link near the end of the artical, ya can't miss it, its really just reiterates what the manul says kind of.

What your after is the shocks to rebound out of the body about 1/4 inch, it does'nt have to be exact, as long as eachpair of shock rebound as much and at about the same speed as each other you should be fine.
Just take ya time if they give you the hump (as ae shocks can) put em down and come back to it later.

[illebille]

Thanks Juddy!

But i still have a problem. the only rayspeed-homepage with tech-tips i could find is in japanese only...

http://www.rayspeed.jp/site_folder/tips.html

as a beginner i'm very interested to read the tips so maybe you can post the link to the correct homepage.

thank you!

[Andy Moore]

Its the bottom link, and about halfway down that page. I used the altavista.com babelfish translator to very loosely get an idea of the text.

[mimoot]

Originally Posted by jcb

You could try the Shock towers that are produced by Atomic Carbon for the S4. These change the geometry of the shocks which help a great deal on bumpy tracks, and are a direct fit on the BJ4.

They are used in conjunction with Losi shocks, (can't remember the body and shaft lengths at the moment) though I am sure there is setup info for associated shocks on the Atomic Carbon website.

Hi JCB,

Could you give a good initial losi shocks set up used in conjonction with S4 shock towers on a BJ4 WE ??

-spring, piston, oil? inside limiting ?
- location on the towers (holes)

Thank you very much!