We recently visited the FOX Factory shock service department in El Cajon, California, where the company builds and services many of its performance off-road shocks. The dedicated crew here builds to ...

Coilover shocks or coilovers are probably one of the hottest suspension components on the market today, but what is a coilover shock, how do they work, and what is the benefit to using them? To start, ...

I spent the last week installing a set of Fortune Auto 500 Series coilovers on my project Civic and the job went smoothly. It took that long because instead of trying to get it all done in one ...

Once you leave the realm of a nut and bolt, numbers-matching, full-on restoration your options are many. Our '68 Corvette falls into that category. A high-mileage, nonnumbers-matching car, it is still ...

“I need new shocks. What should I get?” This is a prompt you’ll see almost every day in car forums and Facebook groups. Inevitably, somebody will reply, “Just get coilovers.” That is bad advice.

When Air Ride Technologies came on the scene in 1996, the company's founder, Bret Voelkel, was known for his killer homebuilt Pro Street Mustang, but not many expected he and his newly created firm ...

There are some definite advantages to air ride suspension often used on trucks, large SUVs, and luxury sedans. You get a smooth ride, and with some vehicles and you can adjust the system to different ...

You know that shocks are what control how your car rides, but what's actually going on inside the tube of a high-performance off-road shock? I took some apart and put them back together (with some ...