I decided to upgrade my main grove gear to the Kitfox Monster gear. Last summer I installed the T3 tailwheel and I could immediately tell the benefits of having shocks on airplanes. I would estimate the T3 shock/spring reduced the fuselage impact by 2/3rds. I want to make my plane last so I'm installing monster shocks/kitdox Gear. In addition to the shocks the gear will make the plane sit over 4" taller giving a better AOA and more under wing shade..
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Flying home from Homedale with the gear legs on top of my camping gear Thursday.
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Monster Shocks
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Installed the fairings, covered and sprayed the gear legs up through silver. Waiting 4 days for the polyspray to off gas to spray Aerothane. It took one day to get to this point.
I know I'll loose a little cruise speed but hope the gains outweigh the loss in speed. I'll report the weight and performance changes when I get it done.