Well, if we relied totally on common sense and experience a lot of the fun of experimentation and pushing the limits wouldn't exist....But I sure hope you don't do that on MY commercial flight!!!!

The one thing I have noticed with shocks, rather then depend strictly on charts and graphs, is giving up a bit of the shock's efficiency by increasing the angle will help the stability.... Valving changes in the shock seem to have the biggest effect on this. Keeping the shocks travel in the "sweet spot" of the shock really helps too. On a typical drag race, street performance shock, the actual movement of the shock in normal driving is probably less the 1" to 1 1/2" either way of center..... The long shocks are essential for 4wd with huge amounts of suspension movement, not so on the street----well unless you have roads like some of them her in SoDak!!!!