Fox 3.0 rear bypass custom tuning/valving anyone ?

nbg-mustang · Sep 24, 2016

What is a soft setting for front?

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For stree use.

Fb73 · Sep 26, 2016

ntm said:
You noticed the fox's not doing well on chop with the rear packing 800 pounds of stuff ? Or unloaded as well ?

I saw a dramatic difference between the icon and fox coilovers on chop, the icons were brutal, even on the softest setting. The fox coilovers were better on all types of terrain for me. I preffered the icon rears because of the quiet bypasses though. Performance and ride wise, there was no difference between the icon or fox external bypass 3.0's...

That would be worse unloaded, those shocks need some weight to be settled IMO...Agree for the front Coilovers...every brand of 3.0"s perform well I think, there was no difference on the big stuff, but Icon rear shocks were definitely more confortable...However, that was much too weight for our shocks anyway...

ntm · Sep 26, 2016

Fb73 said:
That would be worse unloaded, those shocks need some weight to be settled IMO...Agree for the front Coilovers...every brand of 3.0"s perform well I think, there was no difference on the big stuff, but Icon rear shocks were definitely more confortable...However, that was much too weight for our shocks anyway...

If you're packing too much weight you can put the rear bypasses out of the ride zone. That's where I was going there.
Conversely, if you have to tall of springs, you can also get out of that ride zone.

Fb73 · Sep 26, 2016

ntm said:
If you're packing too much weight you can put the rear bypasses out of the ride zone. That's where I was going there.
Conversely, if you have to tall of springs, you can also get out of that ride zone.

That's totally true, I forgot to mention that we did try several weight configuration but it wasn't making a big difference anyway, compared to the confort level of the Icon rear shocks...

RPG · Sep 26, 2016

Please note that the valving in the RPG Fox is set very specific to everyone's needs. 1 turn on the adjusters is a large adjustment. We often work in 1/4 turn increments.

nbg-mustang · Sep 27, 2016

@RPG is there a way to get a section drawing of the FOX shocks or the RPG-FOX shocks to better understand how they work?

ntm · Sep 29, 2016

nbg-mustang said:
@RPG is there a way to get a section drawing of the FOX shocks or the RPG-FOX shocks to better understand how they work?

Just google external bypass shock. That's what both the icon and fox rears are. There are only very small details that are different, function is identical.

The coilovers are different however, the fox's are an internal bypass, the icons are a regular piston, with a bottoming cup to ramp up damping in bottoming events.

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nbg-mustang · Nov 21, 2016

Ok so what I have understand is, that I have to dial the Rebound to +.
Low speed Compression to - and high speed Compression in the middle of + and -

Is that correct?

woutvc · Nov 28, 2016

For rebound:
more -, means faster rebound

For compression:
more -, means stiffer shocks this is for high compression and low compression

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