One of the racers who have been caught up in the KOH whirlwind is Australian Ben Napier. Ben had been driving 4×4’s since he took his driver’s license test behind the wheel of the family’s 1972 Land Rover. Ben then stepped it up when a friend asked him to compete in the Australian W.E. Rock series, which he did, and they had great success. Ben was having fun in the WE Rock series but he had read stories and seen videos of the newly developed King of the Hammers race that really sparked his interest.

King Shocks product development engineers have done it again in 2010 winning two prestigious Global Media Awards for new products at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) trade show. The Global Media Awards are judged by journalists from 16 countries around the world who each chooses a new product they deem most beneficial to their home market from the thousands of entries submitted.

King Shocks has just released a unique internal bypass shock that does not have the drawbacks of the common twin tube design. The King IBP internal bypass shock delivers precisely tunable velocity sensitive and position sensitive damping as well as a hydraulic bump stop in a bolt-on monotube shock. King’s monotube design uses a full diameter piston and standard, full size valving. It’s built from the same quality materials and to the same precise tolerances as King’s top of the line Pure Race series shocks. Mounted to the shaft below the standard piston, a second set of valving is housed in a billet aluminum chamber that contains valve shims and port openings that allow fluid to bypass the standard piston by flowing through ports into the shock’s hollow shaft.

King Shocks tuning experts Gerardo Iribe, Brett King and Lance King recently held a tuning session at the Glamis sand dunes in Southern California for sand car owners looking to get the most performance from their suspensions.

King Shocks has just completed construction of their new research and development lab. The race-proven technology used in King’s Pure Race series shocks is now being applied to a wide range of new products coming from King for production-based trucks, SUV’s and side by sides. The R&D lab is playing an important role in developing these new products.