Shock Absorber Test Method?

Search in www.sae.org for standards and white papers.

There may be other standards from MIL to ANSI: http://www.nssn.org/default.aspx

fire off a help letter to MOOG suspension parts they have a huge amount of design and test result data to draw on. 'da ber

What sized shockers are you going to be testing? (curiosity)

Shockers from track race cars like Touring cars (Aus) or Oval racers, where the shocker travels are measured in the lower inches, or "Off Road" where the shocker travels are measured either in Meters or Feet?

http://www.racerimports.com.au/foxShocks.php

Those are the babies that we are running on some of our racing buggies, with 18-22" of travel... Imagine the machine size for those ;o)

I know nothing about this sort of thing so please ignore me if I'm talking rubbish.

Make sure you include temperature cycling in the tests, especially, starting the compression cycles when the insides of the shock absorbers have been allowed (forced?) to low temperatures.

Why?.... Just because I've noticed on more than one car that when I set off for work on cold (around freezing) mornings the the shock absorbers make terrible noises over the first few speed bumps.

I have a friend who was doing car ice racing, he replaced the oil in his shocks with glycol so he would have less variations in damping.