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Up to 90 degrees you are only using a portion of the shocks ability. The angle the shock "lays" at determines the amount of work it can do. eg at Zero degrees it does Zero work and at 90 degrees it does the most it can. Further if you allow the shock to go past 90 degrees it will effectively "give way".In the same way, the rake angle should affect the suspension performance. In saying that I acknowledged that rake angle is usually small (less than 15 degrees) and won't play a great role like shock angle will.It's trigonometry, not voodoo. Where it becomes voodoo is when you use "constant contact" mode formulas to calculate a "jumping" car's needs. Jumping cars have no interest in anything other than absorbing the landing and to do so most everything else is compromised (to the point of being not relevant) as a result.
I don't think so. Maybe but I need convinced.
Because now the (raked)shock will have a different travel for a given vertical travel of the car compared to the non raked shock.