oil or gas

[regi james]

http://www.k-tecracing.com/show_product.asp?id=610&appid=2 I take it these are oil and not gas, as the rams are not fully extending?
I thought the idea of gas shocks was they don't fade, so why would people switch from standard gas shocks to oil ones which are more expensive?

opinions please

 

[J333EVO]

All dampers have oil, that is how they damp the oscillations of the spring. The gas pressurising is to stop cavitation of the oil when the damper is working hard.

Then you have twin-tube & mono-tube dampers to further confuse, twin tube like Gaz being cheaper to make, mono-tube like Sachs on the Trophy or ohlins etc expensive to make.

Then there are inverted dampers, remote reservoir dampers, the list goes on and on, but Koni dampers with well matched springs will work better than cheap coil-overs.

 

[regi james]

thanks for your reply,
I understand the principal of the types of dampers, just I had been told that oil and gas is better than oil due to fade. so basically what your saying is a good oil shock is better than say a budget gas/oil shock.
Is this still true on say a track day where the oil is gonna get a lot hotter?