Ofna/Hobao17mm big bores on a truggy

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Originally Posted by CerberusVI

So your running these now on your jammin truggy conversion? I'd be interested in your spring and fluid setup. Maybe it can help me play with my setup a bit.

I'm actually running the Jammin big bore 16mm shocks, not the Hobao 17mm shocks.

As for fluid and piston hole size? I'm still experimenting. I ran the OEM size piston holes and 50wt fluid, it was okay, handled big jumps fine, but the suspension was a little stiff, and I still had problems bottoming out, there wasn't enough pack.

I switched to the smaller piston hole, and that pretty much fixed the pack issue, but the suspension was a little too rough so I stepped down to 35wt (I didn't have 40 or 45 at the time and the shop was out of those).

So still experimenting. 35wt was definitely too thin even with the smaller holes.

[CerberusVI]

Yeah I was talking about the 16s. I haven't bought any 17s was just curious. I'm running the 16s on my mbx5t conversion. I'm running stock pistons, silver springs and 35w oil and they seem really soft still. I have to set the preload almost bottomed out to make the arms and cvds sit level. I guess I'll have to try the smaller pistons and some thicker oil

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Originally Posted by CerberusVI

Yeah I was talking about the 16s. I haven't bought any 17s was just curious. I'm running the 16s on my mbx5t conversion. I'm running stock pistons, silver springs and 35w oil and they seem really soft still. I have to set the preload almost bottomed out to make the arms and cvds sit level. I guess I'll have to try the smaller pistons and some thicker oil

I'm using the associated front Bronze springs, and the AE rear brown springs.

They were alot harder than the blue ofna springs.

Bronze (fr)= 4.74lb/in
Brown (rr) = 4.09lb/in.

The truggy weighs in at 10.5lbs with twin 3S 5000mah batteries and a MMM/1515 setup.