Hydraulic bump stops—often referred to as air bumps or nitrogen bump stops—provide the ultimate in protection from hard bottoming situations for your off-road rig. To fully understand what ...

When you think about a car’s suspension, chances are the first components that come to mind are shock absorbers ... stop the axle or suspension arm from traveling too far when a wheel hit a bump.

As hot rodders many of us are constantly messing with our cars, swapping induction systems, wheels, and so on ... because they're never really finished, right? So why is it some components fall ...

Hybrid cars recapture some of the energy usually lost in braking but the dissipation of vibration energy by shock absorbers in the vehicle suspension remains an untapped source of potential energy.

A team of undergraduate students at MIT have developed a shock absorber that actually generates electricity from bumps in the road. This results in up to a 10 percent improvement in overall ...

Traditional mechanical shock absorbers are tubes with oil inside and a plate in the middle with little holes. Your car hits a bump, the oil is forced through orifices (holes in the plate ...