Workshop & track / Monbulk, Victoria

Complete chassis support

The same workshop that builds your kit sets it up: fitting, alignment, corner-weighting, dyno tuning, track support, and rebuilds and revalving for life. Any car, kit or not, and any driver. You don't need to be an enthusiast: if you're in the hills and your car needs suspension work, you're welcome.

All done in-house in Monbulk, Victoria.

All prices indicative, confirmed on booking. All prices inc. GST.

3 years
or 100,000 km warranty, and racing doesn't void it
174+
five-star Google reviews, straight 5.0
Since 2010
designed and tuned in Australia
Local Talent
technology developed in Australia

Development Consultancy

Advice and data from the people who develop the kits, and the cars they go under. Brett instructed at the HSV Academy alongside Brock, Lowndes and Harvey and spent ten years as a Winton test driver. Every answer comes from the seat and the dyno, not a catalogue.

The Shockworks 180SX track car in the Monbulk workshop
$200 with a kit

Suspension consultancy

An hour with the people who develop the kits: which arms, bushes and rates suit your car and how you drive it, and why. Street, drift, circuit, drag or tarmac rally. You leave with a spec and the reasoning behind it, not a sales pitch.

Custom chassis development

When the catalogue runs out, we keep going: bespoke chassis with inboard suspension, custom stub axles and uprights, one-off struts for cars nobody makes parts for. The GT40s and the carbon Renner Speedster came through the same door. Bring the car and the problem; development is scoped on the hoist and quoted per project.

Race team data review

Bring the footage and the logs: what the car is doing, where the time is, and what to change next. The same review we run on our own race cars. Included with a top-tier build.

Custom chassis, in progress

The bare-aluminium open-top on the alignment lift, rear-on under the Shockworks banner, alignment gear on the bench behind
Rear-on, on the alignment lift
Two men in the bare-aluminium open-top, race number 227, parked in the sun outside the workshop
First sit, out in the sun
The bare-aluminium open-top front-on on the lift, headlights fitted, a man standing behind the cockpit
Front-on, panels still bare

On-Track Support

Multiple damper changes in a single day, without the engineer day-rate. WTAC, Bayside Matsuri, VicDrift, Targa. The ute comes to the track so you spend the session driving, not guessing.

The Shockworks trackside support ute with its gullwing canopy open and workbench folded out at a racetrack
from $600

Track support

The ute comes to the track: gassing station, spares and a fold-out bench. Damping force, spring, swaybar and alignment changes between sessions, plus driver feedback. If we already have a stand up at your event, existing customers get looked after at no charge, within reason. Primarily Victoria, elsewhere in Australia and internationally by arrangement. Book well ahead.

On-track testing

When the driver can feel it but not name it, we drive the car and find it: spring balance, damper tuning, the lot. Bring the car and the problem, leave with the answer.

The stand, up at the track

The Shockworks trackside support ute and twin Shockworks marquees set up at night in a race paddock
The ute and the stand, in for the weekend
Two Shockworks marquees over customer cars in a pit paddock at night, a white R32 Skyline and an i30N wearing Shockworks decals
Customer cars under the marquees after dark
The Shockworks-liveried van parked in a circuit garage bay beside a bench with a Shockworks banner
The van and the bench, set up in a garage bay
SHOCKWORKS lettering along a ute's flank in monochrome, with an ÖBRIENS sticker on the sill
Shockworks down the flank, ÖBRIENS on the sill

Workshop

Suspension work done properly, by the people who build the dampers: shock dyno, corner scales and alignment gear, all in-house. Everyone's welcome: daily drivers, family cars, work utes and wheelchair carriers as much as track cars.

from $700

Fitting

One visit: your kit fitted, ride height and preload set, four-wheel alignment and a road test, everything torqued to spec. Premium platforms from $900.

from $150

Wheel alignment

Performance alignment dialled to your setup and how you drive, not a chain-store preset.

A Longacre AccuSet corner-weight readout showing each wheel weight and the cross weight at 49.89 per cent
from $500

Corner-weighting

Scales-on corner balancing and track setup so the car is even and predictable at the limit.

from $60 a corner

Dyno tuning

Damper force traces measured and tuned on the shock dyno, with a before-and-after sheet to prove it. Shockworks and Neotech dampers.

from $200

Rebuilds and revalving

We strip, service and revalve your dampers as the car evolves: Shockworks and Neotech. Not just for tired kits. Our valving moves as we develop chassis, so an older kit can come up to a current code, and a track car can be revalved to chase the next increment. Interstate? Post your dampers in and we quote before any work starts.

The coilover build bench at the Monbulk workshop
from $120 / $80

Valving and springs

Custom valving to a new spec, or a spring-rate changeover, old springs off and the new rate fitted. Often all a car needs to come alive.

The two Shockworks loan cars, a silver and a maroon Mercedes C-Class, parked on a country road

Loan car

Leave yours with us and drive one of ours. Two of them, so a fitting or a rebuild needn't cost you the day.

Enterprise & OEM

When the customer is a manufacturer, the same shop answers. Send the brief, confidential if it needs to be.

New platforms and special cases

First-in-Australia development for anything that competes on a surface: tarmac, gravel, autocross, street car to carbon one-off. Import Monster left a brand-new GR Yaris with us for a year, we bought an i30 N new purely to develop on, and co-developed Mustangs won the 2015 Australian Tarmac Rally Championship outright. The odd ones land here too: stunt and driver-training fleets, rally cars like this Doncaster MINI, anything with no catalogue entry and a specific problem to solve. Typically four to eight weeks.

Mobility and access builds

Vehicles set up for the loads they carry and the people who use them, NDIS-funded conversions included. A three-wheeler like this one isn't a toy, it's the mobility vehicle: what keeps its rider on the road when a bike or a car won't do. This one rode every joint in the road, because its rider is light enough that the factory springs barely moved. Revalved to work at her weight. Tell us about the vehicle and what it needs to do.

Dealer-fitted options

The CX-60 launched to a well-documented complaint about its ride. Ringwood Mazda brought us in, and Shockworks suspension is now a dealer option on the car: specced for the platform, built in Monbulk, ordered with the vehicle. If you sell cars and want a fix on the order form instead of a job the customer takes elsewhere, talk to us.

OEM and trade consulting

Chassis development and damper consulting for vehicle manufacturers, low-volume and concept vehicles, and special-situation builds. The CV runs from damper tuning on the first BMW MINI and X5 to 90 handmade prototype dampers for the first BA Falcon, the HSV GTS MagneRide, armoured diplomatic vehicles and every Melbourne-built GT40. Premcar put us on the Holy Grail GTHO. Their engineering director recommends our dampers over anything on the market.

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Quick answers

01Do I need a Shockworks kit to book the workshop?

No, but Shockworks customers and the local community take priority. Fitting, four-wheel alignment, corner-weighting and the road test are for any car: daily drivers, family cars, work utes and mobility vehicles come through the same door as the track cars. The dyno, rebuilds and revalving are for Shockworks ; we don't generally service or revalve other brands. If you're in the hills and the car needs suspension work, ring.

02What happens at a fitting?

One visit for most cars. The old suspension comes off and the kit goes on. is set on the threaded bodies to where the car should sit for the spec on its build brief and how you drive it, and is set to the kit's spec, not by feel. Everything is torqued to spec, then a four-wheel alignment, because a ride-height change moves the geometry, and a road test before you take it home. Bigger or fiddlier platforms take longer, and the price on this page says so. Fitting it yourself? We'll walk you through it, and the car still wants the alignment afterwards.

03Can you fit and service a kit I bought through a reseller?

Yes. Every kit is and checked in Monbulk before it reaches a reseller, so it comes back to the bench that built it. Same fitting, same alignment, same rebuilds and revalving down the track. Proximity Motorsport in North Queensland can service and rebuild it too.

04When is corner-weighting worth it?

Whenever the car is driven at the limit. Corner scales balance the weight sitting on each wheel with the driver aboard, so the car turns the same way both directions and the damping does what it was valved to do. It follows the fitting and the alignment, and for a track or competition car it's the step that makes the rest count. A street car that's never seen a circuit can live without it.

05What does the shock dyno tell me?

What each damper is actually doing. The strokes the damper through its range and plots force against speed, so we can see a tired seal, a mismatched pair or a valving that's drifted from its code, and prove a change with a before-and-after sheet. It takes Shockworks and Neotech dampers, and it's how a rebuild ends.

06How does a rebuild work if I'm interstate?

Post the dampers in. We strip them, inspect them and quote before any work starts, and where the platform's valving has moved on we can bring the set up to the current code while it's apart. They go back the same way. A street set is worth a service every 50,000 km or so; a competition set gets looked at between seasons.

07What does track support include, and where do you go?

The ute, a gassing station, spares and a fold-out bench, at the circuit for the day. Damping, spring, swaybar and alignment changes between sessions, with driver feedback, so you spend the session driving instead of guessing. If we already have a stand up at your event, existing customers get looked after at no charge, within reason. Primarily Victoria, elsewhere in Australia and overseas by arrangement, and it books out, so ask early.

08How long does a new-platform development take?

A first kit we're happy to put our name on is typically four to eight weeks from the car arriving: measuring, the first build, on-track testing and the revalves that follow it. That's the kit, not the end of the road. Where a car or a program keeps evolving, development runs as an iterative program over months or seasons, each revalve building on the data from the last, for as long as the goal needs it. We'll give you a realistic time on the call for what you're after. A one-off chassis is scoped on the hoist and quoted per project, because nobody knows the answer until the car is up in the air.