****IT'S NOT THE SIZE OF YOUR SHOCK BUT HOW YOU USE IT !**** Probably of all the go fast glittering BULL S#@T out there I would miss my adjustable shocks the most. We have used them since about the time ARS first brought them out in the 90's. We used to go racing with 10 or 12 shocks on the trailer wall and change shocks as required. Sometimes changing shocks worked sometimes it didn't. Now we go to the track with the 4 shocks on the car 2 remote adjust and 2 external adjustable. We now do the work of those dozen shocks with these 4. I can make the point that these 4 are cheeper to own in the long run than owning 8 more less expensive shocks. Put in the hands of a driver that know the way to turn them, they also helps in the last few laps of the race.
We crashed once and threw the right front shocks up into the stands at Little Salem. Sent it back to ARS they rebuilt it and put it back together for $125.00 and it was good as new. Sometime quality is really less expensive to own and race with than cheap throw away stuff.
When ARS first brought out the cockpit adjustable left rear shock a friend of mine who raced USAC Midgets was one of the first to get them. He had a young high profile driver driving for him and almost every race the driver would come in with the shocks turned in the wrong direction. To compesate for this my friend made the adjustment before the race un-hooked the cable to the shock and let the young driver turn the knob all he wanted.
I would much rather do away with our super-trick paint job and graphics than our adjustable shocks.