I think it would be a combination of the shock oil, spring pre-load, RTR weight of the truck and of course the overall height of the rig.
You will have to do some experimenting with setup until you find some combination that works...

Alien

Well yeah. DUH. And believe me I have. But is 10in bottom good/right. Or is my goal of 4 foot accurate? LOL Maybe the little white discs in the shocks have holes that are too big. I know I'm talking short but I'm I making sense?

I noticed that you want to hit the track some. Remember that almost all jumps have landing ramps made to help out on the landing. You have to use those to supplement the vehicle's suspension. Its a big difference than dropping the truck straight down with no momentum nor landing ramp.

With that said, are you using the stiffest springs? with preload?

Bottoming out isn't all that bad either. Just make sure the shocks aren't bottoming out when it happens.

All true. And for the track in Foley my truck is perfect as the track has only two small jumps (kind of a boring track, although fast.)

Stiffest Black in the back. and Blue next stiffest in the front, with alittle on preload on both ends simply to get a good heigth.

Four Supershocks is ALL you need. For an 11.5lb truck, I would run 65wt oil front and rear with blue springs front and black springs rear...you do have the UE Supershock spring set, right?

I have never seen them in stock...I have heard about them being in stock, but every time I got to the site, they were sold out. I bid on and lost 4 or 5 G1 kits on eBay, but just happened to come across this NIP kit only a few minutes after the seller had posted it on eBay.

I had a ton of the cheaper toy-grade RC cars first, but my very first hobby-grade car was the Cox Scorpion (same as Kyosho Scorpion), which I got in 1981. It was used, but in really good condition, because my dad got it from a guy he worked with shortly after he got it new (it was electric). My next car was a Cox Assault (same as Kyosho Assault), which I got in 1983. It came from the same guy my dad worked with, and it was also in pretty good shape, because the guy bought it and didn't like how hard it was to keep a nitro engine running well (it was nitro). But, the car that really means a lot to me, was the very first car I bought with my own money and assembled myself, a Futaba FX10! It was built for Futaba by Tamiya, and was based on the Tamiya Stryker.

I have 2 blue 2 black, and 2 red. My truck is thicker in oil than yours was. How quickly did yours bottom? Like how much of a drop did it take b4 bottoming?

I have never seen it outa stock until today. I'm glad you got one.

Do you have any photos of your current suspension setup (showing pre-load and geometry)?

I will take pics tonight and post up 2moro.

Thanx guys! RCM, is the best. Its a given. A given. :yipi::intello:

Still wanting Lito's words.

Lito is the man!

Skids are supposed to hit the ground once in a while that why they are called skids. lol I run black in the back and blue up front also in my 11# truck. Thicker oil will slow the suspension down possibly preventing bottoming out.

One of the hardest things to make people understand is that they are supposed to bottom out, they were designed to bottom out. If the shocks ran out of travel before the chassis hit the ground, the shocks would blow apart on every jump! Of course, they aren't supposed to slam into the ground with massive force, but they are supposed to hit the ground.

River and Chad. You are absolutely right. We both sound like we have had similar setups suspension wise... so how much of a drop did it take to bottom? Pics later.

River, I run 80wt.

Zack, like I said previously, bottoming out isn't bad. And its 2 different things to bottom out while driving and bottom out while someone drops it from the sky.

I think you need to take you setup to the track and see how it does on the jumps. And remember, jumps were made for you to use the landing ramps. It supplements the Trucks suspension.

I would say that a properly setup suspension should allow the skids to just barely tap the ground when dropped from about 4 feet.

I got banned from TRX.