I assume big bore springs wont fir gtr ?
Using losi on big bores at the moment.

Side note: how often you change shock oil? Bashing only. Never lost a cap.

http://thebarnfloor.com/catalog/prod...7#.UOI3Mm9E6e0 You can get all 4 big bores for around $40 bucks on this site. this is my go-to site for rc

I guess I'll throw my 2 cents in.

When I bought my slash, I went nuts on mods right away, I bought the ProLines and the extra spring kit, and a wide assortment of fluids to find something that worked well.

I only bash with the truck for now, but have been invited by a couple guys down at my LHS to try racing, so that may come in the near future. I don't know if I am doing something wrong, but IMO the super soft and soft springs are just too weak and just collapse under the weight of the Slash with a 3S battery installed. I tried multiple combinations of spring rates and fluid weights, and came to the conclusion I could have saved myself some money on the "coolness factor" by buying just plain old big bore shocks. I'm running matched spring rates on all 4 corners (Firm long and short springs, 50wt fluid on the rear - Medium long and short springs with 40wt fluid on the front).

IMO The whole dual spring set up is a huge gimmic (hey, it looks cool right?!), I did hours of research watching youtube videos on peoples setups, reading tips and trick on the pro line site, asking questions on the traxxas site, before trial and error (and a few bottles of shock fluid) finally led me to the setup I have now.

*EDIT*
Sorry, I will say they're not all bad, but for the price, the GTR shocks look to be a better deal with less hassle. The PL shocks are extremely beefy, nice big shafts, big reservoirs, relatively easy to change the fluid in (although one of my caps mounting holes was a tad too small and had to drill it out just to get the screw in), that was relatively minor. If you do get them, make sure all the O-Ring seals are seated correctly, I had one leak out a lot of oil because the bottom o-ring wasn't seated in it's little space.

Agreed.

agree to disagree...ive had the proline's for 3-4 months and i bash around the house and bash even harder at the track.

ive never bent a shaft, they dont leak, still holding up like the day they were new.

i also bought the spring kit and agree that the softer side of the springs are practically useless. but, the fact that i can super fine tune my spring rates and seeing the chart of spring combinations make it worth every penny to me. with other shock setups you end up buying all kinds of other springs for other trucks that werent made for the slash...not saying people dont have luck with that, its just easier to look at a chart to do my dialing.

the statement that the progressive rates are pointless...i disagree with that. 2 spring rates are better than 1...if they werent, then people in the 1:1 scale wouldnt be using them either. one for big bumps, one for small bumps...id use a third spring if it were practical. sorry, but "hours or research on youtube" comment just makes me laugh. no offense intended, just thought it was funny.

at the time i bought the proline's there were only big bore's available. if i were to do it all over again with gtr's available...well id still buy the proline's, but i agree that the gtr's are great value and if youre on a budget you cant beat them for the price.

I'm confused. I had the powerstrokes and they have very small 10mm bores like the undersized ultras. Not Sure how Anyone Can say That they have big reservoirs?
And The fact that They have a .5mm Bigger shaft than stock means its even more oil volume reduced against The Small body size.
I tried A number of shock setups And The Prolines Were my least fav, probably because i didnt spring for The ridiculously expensive spring Set...
Running losi SCTE Shocks now and like them but was considering The new gtrs...

your better off getting the GTR shocks made for the jato or revo if you want a true big bore

Not sure what bore size the Jato/Revo GTR shocks are but I think they're shorter (87mm) than the slash 4x4 rears so you'd lose a lot of downward arm travel as they wouldn't extend nearly as far as stockers that are around 115mm. If you put on a longer shock you won't have as much up travel and if you put on a shorter shock you'll lose down travel.
The only shocks i've found that were the same dimensions as the Slash's within a couple of MM are the Losi SCTE shocks.

So did you actually read my post, or just pick and choose what you wanted to see?

I don't think you can compare rc shocks to how shocks work on a real car....