Jato suspension..how good is it?

[Rtsbasic]

On my custom truck, I can mount the shocks wherever I like on the tower (all I need to do is drill the holes). I'm already using Jato front arms (I love RPM for making these), and my current shocks are at a similar angle to the Jato's.

And in spite of all this, it still confuses the heck out of me to see how if I was to fit shorter shocks, I would get the same amount of travel I get right now :C: Maybe I should try it with a pair of buggy shocks and see what happens..but to me something doesn't make sense. I know it works on the revo because it uses them rocker things but no such thing on the Jato.