[LG Motorsports]

Hi Guys,

This is precisely why we build shorter shock bodies in our Coil over Pacakge. We never want the shock to bottom and become a solid connection.

if you take a sledge hammer and pound as hard as you can on a spring, you will never transmit the full force on whatever you are pounding on. But if you hit directly onto something with that sledge hammer you will soon break whatever you are hitting

The point is that any car, Corvette included, was not built to be driven on a solid connection between the ground and the frame. These are not go carts.

Any engineers out here that can figure the force=mass x acceleration in this equation?
Where the mass is the wheel, tire, suspension, and the acceleration is determined by the speed of the car and the size of the log that it hit. I would say that the resulting force is pretty high. and then transmit it through a solid bottomed out shock and you have a direct 1 : 1 relationship of the force that was delivered.


I would suspect that you will find a bent "A" arm also that bent at the location of the lower shock mount on the A arm.

The forces involved if transmitted through a bottomed out shock (whether coil over or STock) are a one to one relationship if there is no spring in between to reduce the shock. It is like a Tire Barrier at the race track. If you hit 5 rows of tires with your race car it it better than hitting the concrete wall behind them directly with no tires in between.

I would also venture to guess that the failure will be found to be the bayonett (SP) top mount with rubber bushings that plunged through the top mount first, then if the shock was bottomed out, it had no where else to go but up.

This is all conjecture until the photos come in but I have tested the shock mount on these cars and they are more than strong enough for a coil over.

WHat they will not do is allow a car to be connected solid to the suspension which is what happens with a shock body that is too long. And this would happen with a stock long body or any other long shock body.

We need photos to come to an intelligent conclusion.

I look forward to seeing the total picture.

Thanks
Lou Gigliotti