XV Shocks - pics.....

[dqhemi]

We should be shipping our Level I B and E body suspensions in about ten days. The company doing the shocks for us sent me these pics and they are shipping them out on Monday or Tuesday to us. I think these are the last pieces we need before we're ready to ship.

The shocks are high pressure monotube, real race quality shocks custom valved to our specs based upon 4-post and track testing. Monotubes are pretty much state of the art today.

Our shocks are valved specifically for each platform, so B and E body shocks are valved differently and optimized to work with each car in conjunction with leaf springs, torsion bars and sway bars all optimized to work as a package.

The shocks are 100% shock dyno'd to spec by the manufacturer and rebuildable and revalveable. Dynoing the shocks is something race teams do to get truly matched sets. They are verifying the compression and rebound as well as high and low speed velocities match the settings on our development shocks for each platform.

The Level I shocks aren't adjustable, but if you wanted to, you can adjust the nitrogen charge in these shocks and alter its characteristics some. Shocks for our Level II suspension are adjustable. Gas charge I believe is somewhere north of 250 PSI.

Enjoy!

John Buscema
XV Motorsports
www.xvmotorsports.com

[cadpro]

Kinda looks like KING Shocks in So Cal... is it?

[fatlife]

cool, most people don't realize just how important good valving is. On the other hand, having a set of fully adjustable shocks out of tune is pretty bad also. And you definetly need either first hand info on how they should be set, or somewhere like the track where you can get some repeatability to tune them.

You guys seem to be putting together some pretty cool stuff, hopefully the average guy will be able to afford the stuff in the future

[dqhemi]

Originally Posted by fatlife

cool, most people don't realize just how important good valving is. On the other hand, having a set of fully adjustable shocks out of tune is pretty bad also. And you definetly need either first hand info on how they should be set, or somewhere like the track where you can get some repeatability to tune them.

You guys seem to be putting together some pretty cool stuff, hopefully the average guy will be able to afford the stuff in the future

Our Level I setup should be in anyone's budget and will dramatically improve the ride and handling of the car. It uses the same quality monotube shock as Level II, just not adjustable, but still custom valved for the application. Chassis stiffening kit is real inexpensive as well. Those two together make a world of difference on the car.

As for Level II it's kind of the ultimate setup and there's really no way that one ever ends up in a price range that will make sense to everyone.

John Buscema
XV Motorsports
www.xvmotorsports.com

[novanutcase]

Any chance you'll be valving for a '66 chevy 2?

[dqhemi]

Originally Posted by novanutcase

Any chance you'll be valving for a '66 chevy 2?

Right now we're only doing Mopars, but we keep getting asked to do other platforms, especially GM.

So we're starting to think more and more about it.

John Buscema
XV Motorsports
www.xvmotorsports.com