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King Shocks About Us

King Shocks is a manufacturer and servicer of custom made adjustable and rebuildable automotive shock absorbers and performance racing products for utility vehicles, OEM replacement and professional racing use. Our company prides itself on putting quality, performance and customer service above all else. Every product we sell is the result of constant testing and development done with top racers in competition worldwide. This real world testing exposes our designs to a level of abuse and destructive forces that cannot be duplicated in a laboratory. In addition to our busy field-testing schedule, preliminary designs are quantified using our state of the art, electro-magnetic, shock dyno capable of inducing shaft speeds up to 120 inches per second with a drive position resolution of 1 micron. It can play back racecourse data collected from a number of commonly used onboard, automotive data acquisition systems and uses a non-contacting Infrared style transducer to monitor temperature readings. It’s the closest thing to real world conditions without getting sand in your shoes. Our “hands on” experience enables us to make rapid design advancements others haven’t even dreamed up yet.

Our product line consists of Coilover, Bypass, and Smoothie shocks as well as Bumpstops, tools and racing jacks. Our OEM and UTV upgrade kits offer serious performance upgrades and simple bolt-on installation. They are available for stock vehicles or those modified with aftermarket lift kits or long travel suspensions.  King Shocks are serviced using simple hand tools when the time comes. You can order a seal kit and return them to factory fresh condition yourself or send them to the  factory for service. All parts used in our products are machined in house at our Garden Grove, California facility from billet alloy materials on precision equipment to exacting standards and hand assembled by our trained technicians.

In addition to the quality and innovative design features you will find on all King Shocks, we provide you with the highest level of customer support. We offer complete tuning and rebuilding services. Our depth of knowledge when it comes to shock tuning and suspension set-up is second to none. We are available on a weekly basis at races, off-road events and tuning sessions helping you attain the most effective damping performance from your suspension. King Shocks also offers design, manufacturing and engineering services for custom one-off applications. If you can dream it, we can build it. When you choose to ride on Kings you can rest assured you will have the finest shocks obtainable.

Our History

King Shocks was born out of necessity, long before we opened our doors in 1996. The original designs drawn by Lance King back in the early 80’s were created to fill the needs of the top level racers of the day. Nothing existed at the time that could stand up to the punishment dished out by racers like Bill Stroppe, Parnelli Jones and Walker Evans. The faster cars and trucks ran several shocks on each wheel which were often changed at pit stops along with the tires.

Our original 3” shock was designed with pure performance in mind from only the highest quality materials available. When your name goes on the product, it makes a difference. Like most family owned businesses, King Shocks had humble beginnings. Lance King did the design work and the machining of the parts, Son Ross was the welder/fabricator and Son Brett did sales. To get the company off the ground, Ross and Brett worked a whole year without drawing a paycheck. Like the desert racers who ran their shocks, the Kings where not afraid of hard work and perseverance.

King Shocks has grown into the company it is today by staying true to our original goals of putting quality and performance above all else and by continuously improving materials and design. Our dedication to quality extends to our customer service and support as well. In addition to our numerous application specific products, we build custom shocks for anything you can dream of as well as some you could not imagine. Many of the high performance features available today such as bypass tubes, seal technology, shaft diameters and tube construction were pioneered by King, working to give our customers the competitive edge they need.