# Dual shock suspension setup for first gen and lithium upgrade **URL:** \ **Category:** GEM Forum\ **Created:** [February 9, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/dual-shock-suspension-setup-for-first-gen-and-lithium-upgrade/25839 "2023-02-09T16:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![grantwest](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.electricforum.com/grantwest/32/15_2.png) [@grantwest](https://community.electricforum.com/u/grantwest)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/dual-shock-suspension-setup-for-first-gen-and-lithium-upgrade/25839/3 "2023-02-09T16:52:37Z")
Wow. That’s the 2nd Time I have seen a dual shock set up! The first was 10-12 years ago. Marlon had a set up like that. If it’s working for ya that’s awesome! It’s cool to see people trying all these different tricks or hacks to make things work. Yes I could never get the progressive 416 air shocks to work well with the classic Gem. The ride was great but the car had lots of body roll with the 416’s. I finally fixed the body roll problem by adding a front sway bar and it fixed that. Here is the thread > [@Sway Bar](https://community.electricforum.com/t/sway-bar/6297): > > Hey I’ll try and make a long story short, when I took out all the flooded lead acid batterys out of my gem car the car rode so stiff it was a joke. Ya see the car was designed to carry almost 500 Lbs in battery and when I removed that weight the shocks were way to stiff. So I searched around and the only shocks that I could find were some Air Shocks off a Honda Gold Wing. Well they made the ride awesome but they are to soft and they don’t make stiffer springs Ect. I have come to the conclusion t… BTW I wanna take this moment to say how much I hate photo bucket and regret ever uploading 1 photo to those bastards. F them I hate them --- _[View the full topic](https://community.electricforum.com/t/dual-shock-suspension-setup-for-first-gen-and-lithium-upgrade/25839)._