Alpha rear shocks
- Thread starter BlueDevil
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Friend of mine has some coil over Kashima coated Fox shocks on his Alpha. I thought they were available through Cat as an accessory, but looking back at the 2019 catalog they aren't listed. Might have to give Tom's or Carver Performance a call and see if they can spec them out for you if you wanted to go the Fox route. Other than that Zbroz is the only website I've seen with them listed for sale. Ohlins does have an Alpha One application listed on their website, but details are scarce. Probably have to call their US service center and inquire.
you can run a 19 hardcore shock in the rear (probably the cheapest option), the front skid shock clicker is clocked wrong.
2020 hardcore alpha comes factory With QS3 and qsL coil overs. Been pretty happy with them. Other then the front track spring has to be cranked close to full tension On 2 and 3 setting to stop bottoming out, would like to try a dual rate spring. Fyi I am a fussy suspension person. I ended up running raptors on previous two sleds. And I’ve rode 19 Alphas With the cat air shocks and I think there terrible! Even after playing with all the settings.
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If you like coil over shocks, I bet someone on here has a set of the QS3 shocks off a Hardcore they have replaced or would be willing to trade for your air shocks? Get the front track shock spring replaced with a 125 spring and maybe re-valved and you would be golden!
Send them to Gashshockrepair and have them re-valved. They're way better once you get them re done
That would depend on your budget and what you expect out of the shocks. The Elkas have more adjustability with high/low speed compression and rebound adjustments. The hardcore shocks only have the 3 position wide range compression adjuster. So if you really like to fine tune and adjust the suspension Elka would probably be the way to go. If you're the "IDK I just set it to 2 and ride it" type of rider then the hardcore set is probably good enough.
Sent you a pm.
Raptor doesn't have any regular Alpha skid shocks yet so maybe they didn't have the time to put toward development with kmod. If you picked up the phone Kevin would probably tell you why he went with Fox over Raptor.
