stupid question on droop
 

I've come over from tc and 1/12, so i am a bit green with off-road.

Hpw is droop measured with off-road?

As i know it isnt, just if you got it or not. Best to have some as tc dont need it. Where as buggys do.

Lift the car off the ground so the wheels arnt touching. Then measure the lengthof the shock.
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/27/droop.jpg

What tosh..... on road use it just as much as off road.

Best way is with a droop gauge. Or measure car at ride height under from or rear of chassis then lift till wheels are just touching floor and re measure. Shock length is just that shock length which can be measured off the car. If yourcar has droop screws measuring shock is pointless to get droop imo as You should use the screws to adjust not the shocks

Coming from 8th (where we pretty much all use Chris' method) I notice that 10th guys have a wide variety of ways of measuring it, mostly by placing the car on a ride height block and then using a droop gauge.

If you're copying someone else's setup, best to use whichever method they used. If you just want a record for yourself do whichever you find easiest. Myself, eye to eye on shock with a set of vernier calipers is easiest and most reliable. And yes, it works just fine if you have droop screws to - less droop = shorter shock.

A quick lesson from Adam Drake (who's quite handy!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H99PKqsUZjA

Spot on link Mr Magoo tells you all you need to know:thumbsup:

have a read of this, page 13
http://www.teamxray.com/teamxray/sho...p?file_id=4461

Yup, that's a great way to do it if you want an absolute measure of drop. However, measuring the shock eye-to-eye is just as valid, all be it a different measurement. The Hudy way is useless for any of the cars I run in 8th or 10th as the setup sheets posted by the pro's all use the eye-to-eye measurement not absolute down-travel. If I did ever want to copy a setup using absolute down travel figures, the Hudy way is what I'd do.

As I said in my original post both methods are just fine and will work well. Use which ever you find easiest. Me, the setups I use are all based on eye-to-eye length, I don't have a pair of ride height blocks or (very expensive:() droop blocks. I do have a very good set of verniers, so I choose to use them.

thats all well if you copy the full set up, if you alter the inner pivot blocks to change roll centres your way the shocks remain the same length but the droop changes, my/xrays way droop will be consistant if measured on blocks everytime