Hi, I'm Steve at QA1 with my good friend Bill Foley. We're gonna talk about
choosing shocks for a streetcar the single versus double battle.
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So today we're gonna be talking about choosing shocks for your streetcar now. We've got
many different shocks, shock lengths, shock adjustabilities, we've got coil-over
shocks, we've got non-coil-over shocks. If you're using a leaf spring or a factory
coil spring obviously you would go with our Stocker Star line of non-coil-over
shocks. Now when it comes to adjustability we have the easiest one to
talk about is the non-adjustable -And the easiest one to use. -Yeah it's very easy
to use we we valve it to be like a like a comfortable yet slightly performance
kind of a ride. -Yeah think about like a performance shock before there were
adjustable shock options there were some shocks for performance some shocks
weren't. This is a performance version of a non-adjustable shock. Yeah it's it's
very affordable too so that's one option. Then we can get into the shock that
I like for streetcars which is the single adjustable. And my thinking behind
that is you've got 18 settings from full soft to full firm, you have that
adjustability, that control in your hands. That adjustment covers both the
compression and rebound. So it's an overall softening or an
overall firming of the shock. Once you find your comfortable street setting
you may not ever touch it again but at least in my mind
you bought performance shocks you had the control to get the car riding where
how you wanted it. Yeah you've got some say over how it rides yeah it feels yeah.
And then if you wanted to go further than that tell us about the double
adjustables Bill. The double adjustable shock gives you independent control of each
direction of the shock. So rebound pulling the shock out compression
pushing the shock in. You've got a knob for each direction, it adjusts each
direction independently, so you can turn out just the compression valving if i
turn that up i can still pull it out easily but now I can barely push it in.
And where would that benefit like on the streets as far as what you'd be able to
tune in and out of the shot? I'm a big fan of the double adjustable for the
reason that it gives you more ability to get it just the way you want it. It's
also really versatile so you can take it to a drag strip or you can take it to an
autocross make a couple of adjustments and have the right adjustment for that
discipline. I've got double adjustables on a couple
of my streetcars that I really don't do any sort of racing with and I love them.
They're easy you set them up once and you're good to go. Yeah I'm more of the
flavor of running the single adjustables on the street and the reason for that is
is that you've got the control so you can adjust it to how you want the car to
ride but you don't have all these adjustment knobs and you don't feel like
you have to have taken a suspension class to figure out what you're
adjusting and furthermore with that many adjustments on your street car in my
mind I would think okay the car rides fantastic but is there one little
adjustment that I could make that would make it right even more. On top of that
the cost of the double adjustables versus the singles that's why I
tend to lean towards the singles on the streets. But again like Bill was saying
the double adjustable it is more adjustable. Like you've got more
adjustability in it. Which means you can get it set up really good or if you're not
paying attention or you're just turning stuff all willy-nilly you can you can
set it up pretty bad. You could you could make you could make
a double adjustable shock work pretty terrible for whatever you're doing. -Yeah.
But you could make it work really good for whatever you're doing so. Yeah the
one thing I hear on the phones quite a bit is that my buddy said I have to get
double adjustables for my streetcar I don't even really want to adjust the
shocks and a lot of customers are relieved to find out my outlook on the
single adjustables and why I think they're a really great street shock.
They're both both options work really well. What it really comes down to is
what your performance goals are like? What are you building your car for? What
do you want it to do for you? And most importantly in my opinion is the driver.
You know it it's a personal thing. There are people like me who I like I like to
get really into the details of something and make it what exactly the way I want
it. There are a lot of people out there who
want just enough of the details but they don't want complete control. Well a lot
of the customers are coming off of like the sixteen dollar auto parts store
shocks so just putting the single adjustable on there we've had customers
tell us 'I drove a different car home'. So it's going to be fantastic
whether you go with the singles or the doubles but those are a little bit of
the differences about why you might choose one over the other for your
streetcar. So I hope you learned a lot today and if you do still have any
questions about any of our shock line, give us a call at the tech line or visit
us at QA1.net and we thank you for watching don't we Bill?! Sure do!
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