MIP “Real Shocks” Bypass1 pistons

[jimmy]

The team at MIP have been working hard behind the scenes on their newest Hi-Tech innovation – “Real Shocks” Bypass1 Piston technology!!

Unlike any piston seen before in the R/C industry, these pistons are inspired by full size off road vehicles. The description of what these pistons are designed to accomplish will change your definition of how you thought a shock absorber should work.

A noticeable problem was MIP’s motivation for giving birth to “Real Shocks” Bypass1 patent-pending technology, and what better shock design is there besides real off-road trophy truck shocks?
MIP’s top engineers studied and decoded the Off-Road Vehicle shocks, and came up with their very own version of shock bypass technology! For more information check out their all new “Real Shocks” website.

What the “Real Shocks” offer;

· Full Scale Bypass technology for R/C cars, trucks and buggies

· Precision machined pistons made from bearing grade plastics

· Colour coded valves for easy set-up and assembly

· Octagon shaped pistons to reduce drag and keep the piston guided in the shock bore

· Dyno tested to match the rebound flow of stock pistons

· Direct replacement for stock pistons, no modifications required to fit

Available for Associated, HPI, Losi, TLR and Traxxas shocks

www.realshocks.com

[Origineelreclamebord]

I saw an article about this a few days back. I'm very curious how much an improvement it will be Looks interesting for sure!

[Chrislong]

Surely in the photos the valve is up-side-down?

As you want the damping to be upward, and the piston to move quicker downward - so the shock can recover a bump quicker ready for the next? Anyone else think this too?

If the piston is free to move up, but recovers slower, this I see as a bad thing. Which is how I see it would work the way the piston is assembled in the images. :/

[isobarik]

Car shocks work this way to with rebound damping

mvh Isobarik

[Gayo]

Originally Posted by Chrislong

Surely in the photos the valve is up-side-down?

As you want the damping to be upward, and the piston to move quicker downward - so the shock can recover a bump quicker ready for the next? Anyone else think this too?

If the piston is free to move up, but recovers slower, this I see as a bad thing. Which is how I see it would work the way the piston is assembled in the images. :/

I think that at slow speeds, the valve is not supposed to work, so the piston reacts like your usual RC piston.

The valve should open when facing bumps at speed where the piston speed is high and you don't want pack. (I wonder how it will work on jumps though)

So, unlike RPM 2-stage pistons that had a different damping depending the side and were supposed to be "heavier" on compression, MIP pistons are the same on both ways but "open" instead of packing heavily, like on 1/1 cars.

[jimmy]

It does say on the MIP page that you can run them the other way round

[Cooper]

it looks so complicated

[RudeTony]

We run these on the original Predator car.
Richard Weatherley designed these over ten years ago and were used on Kevin Moores car and William Mitchams etc etc !!!!

Nice idea and works in certain conditions but for the life of me i don't understand the hex part - why would you want oil by passing the piston holes apart from just opening the valve - Strange in my opinion!!