I stumbled upon internal shock limiting early in my first year of racing. My rear A-arms where traveling so low that my CVDs were popping out of the drive cups. Instead of shimming the CVD closer, I just limited the down travel of the rear suspension. Little did I know that it would change my setup world permanently. I figured it helped dramatically in the rear, what would it do in the front as well? Holly shit.... I went from mostly C-mains to upper B-mains just... like... that!!!
Here's a picture of how I limit the rear shocks.
I just use the old left over spacers from the shocks after I rebuild them.
These are only the rear shocks, I usually do all 4... I'll get some better pictures up while I rebuild my shocks when I can find time. As you can tell I just took them apart to show a friend a couple years ago. I'd have them very clean if I were going to rebuild these shocks or would have needed them anytime soon.
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I must add that I'm not an expert at setups, actually I'm far from it. As far as I can tell, internal shock limiting mainly forces the inside wheels down in turns thus reducing body roll as well. There are other ways to reduce body roll without internal limiting such as camber link adjustments..... which I had no luck finding a different setting than stock that worked for most tracks like internal limiters do. I also found that some body roll can be a good thing so don't try to eliminate all roll but I'm not going into it here.
Here are some useful links if you really want to read and learn. Team Orion TOC of Handlingand Mystracing
Enjoy