The rear shock is a KW Motosports EXR 3-way shock with low hysteresis valving. The spring rates are pretty shocking and the amount of damping force these shocks need to produce is amazingly high, close to the limit of conventional shocks.
The suspension links are by SPL while the lower control arm is by Mountain Pass Performance. Evasive Motorsports made the adaptors to replace all of the cars remaining OEM bushings with spherical bearings. The rear swaybar is an Eibach adjustable part while the front is a huge custom part made by Evasive Motorsports.
Every suspension and brake bolt is checked. After that everything is cleaned and inspected for leaks and wear. One of the advantages of electric cars is prep is probably 1/4th of the work of an IC car and nothing in the Powertrain breaks!
We think every car with a lot of aero needs air jacks! Anyone with a car with a flat bottom, big splitters, and diffusers knows that getting the car up in the air is a pain in the ass. Air jacks make this so easy.
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Very cool! Congrats to Dai and the team! BEV has come a long way, and this format is perfect for the current state of battery tech. Exciting times!
Thank you!
Mike, these Pikes Peak race support stories are the best. When you talk about this car reaching the damping limits of conventional shocks, what are you options when that happens?
since we were using the stiffest commercially available springs, fortunately this was not an issue. If we had to somehow go stiffer, I would have to find another manufacturer and possibly do something like off-road shocks that have bigger pistons and more fluid flow.