I am trying to put the money I have spent and in some cases wasted to good use. By helping others avoid making expensive bad decisions just based on marketing hype.
I know I am putting myself out there for criticism on my choices and set up. So let me say right here, what works for me,my Raptor and environment may or may not work for everyone. It is your truck and your right to do what you want to it.
Suspension has always been a personal subjective subject.. So I am trying to keep "feelings" out of it as much as possible and present more empirical evidence/data of my last year of upgrades.
Plus, to report what the end user has to gain/lose for certain mods without being bedazzled marketing mumbo jumbo. Real world experiences..
As far as my experience with shocks has been the same with engines..
There is NO replacement for displacement.
Shock absorbers provide controlled, predictable deceleration. These products work by converting kinetic energy to thermal energy. More specifically, motion applied to the piston of a hydraulic shock absorber pressurizes the fluid and forces it to flow through restricting orifices, causing the fluid to heat rapidly. The thermal energy is then transferred to the cylinder body and harmlessly dissipated to the atmosphere. The more fluid and heat the shock can displace the more effective the shock.. Plain and simply!
The larger a shock is in diameter, the larger its bore can be. The bore is the diameter of the piston and the inside diameter of the pressure tube. The larger the piston’s diameter, the larger its surface area. Since pressure is force divided by area, it stands to reason that the larger the area, the smaller the pressure generated by a given force. Inside a shock, the lower the pressure, the lower the temperature. In addition, a larger diameter shock can contain more oil to absorb and dissipate the heat generated, resulting in reduced internal operating temperatures for a given force. The result is, the larger the shock diameter, the cooler it will run and therefore the harder the shock can be worked before fading.
-Greg
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