So today i got the now scrap front fuoco shock and fully dismantled it to see if my idea of putting a hagon shock inside a fuoco shock was doable. I had a old pair of hagons that were sitting on the shelf, one was knackered so i dismantled it just to see how it was put togeather.The first two photo's show the fuoco shock . third photo shows the pair of hagons with one dismantled and the fourth photo showing that a hagon will fit inside the fuoco shock. I think it is fully doable as long as hagon could supply a suitable shock. I can possibly see why hagons are not going to make shocks as welding the brackets to the shock tubing will cause distortion on a single tube shock just as i found out when dismantling the fuoco shock as the inner damper tube would not pull out from the bottom of the shock due to distortion on the outer tube. On the hagon shocks the spring ramp cam is only welded around the base cap to avoid distortion futher up were the nitrogen/oil seperating holding piston moves up and down in the damper tube.
There are other issues in fitting the hagons, one is how to hold it in the fuoco shock at the topof the fuoco damper tube, i'm thinking of a threaded top cap of the like used on rebuildable ikon/koni dial-a -rides . There's also a idea in my head of machining the brackets off the fuoco shocks and replacing with new tubing which may help threading up the top of the tubes to hold a threaded top cap like koni/ikon. Brain is still working on a number of other ideas. I will see if hagons technical dept are available to talk to this week and see if they can supply what i'm after damper wise before going further. I'm hopeing hagons can help me with what type of damping and spring rate will be required.