shocking question?

[baz-r]

well the load will not have changed so spring rate would be the same (seems people are useing diffrent rates any way.

i did ask the guy at dampertech over the phone and he could not tell me why we need the extension instead of a longer unit. he seemed to think it was due a clearence issue from frame and bodywork.

if we where to look at what the diffrence would be between a std fitment shock with the extension and one without but longer (next size up) what would we get.
eye to eye length would be the same open.
eye to eye length would be half inch shorter (bump stop could be ajusted possibly with a simple spacer)
extra half inch stroke at shock (could be an issue for movemet at drag link).
spring seats can be ajusted so if we use the same length spring we could ajust up the seat but this might reduce the amount of running ajustment or run out of ajustment so the other option would be to use a longer spring.

what we realy need to do is get mr gibbs himself to tel us why we have the extension in the first place and why we dont just use a longer unit