Originally Posted by REDLYNER [*]Emulsion Shocks: $450.00

It's none of my business really, but I'm gonna run my mouth anyway. Hey - you asked!

For your intended application why in the world would you want to downgrade from the stock reservoir shocks to emulsion shocks? Or has someone already done away with the OEM Kayabas on "the rig in question"? For intense use such as racing I would think you'd be better off with reservoir shocks, not emulsion shocks. Emulsion would be OK for street or plodding along (rock crawling, etc.) but offroad racing's different. The suspension will be swinging from topped out to bottomed out continuously - every second for the entire race - lots of heat to dissipate! I'm betting emulsions would suffer major fade w/in 15 minutes.

If you wanted an upgrade from the stock piggybacks you could go to a remote reservoir but a lot of them have externally adjustable damping which would not be within the rules. The stock KYBs you have to take apart and play with the shim stack to adjust damping so they meet the rules.
X2 to that. For some quality cheap reservoir shocks you might try FOA shocks too. Their shocks are built to race and priced very reasonably. The only thing to worry about is that you'd have to convert the front mounts on the VX from a post mount to an eye mount, which is extremely easy.

2.0" Remote reservoir shock
2.5" Remote reservoir shock