How do shocks do anything on a heavily sprung car with sway bars?

Title pretty much says it. How do shocks work on cars with minimal suspension movement?

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Scott in Chattanooga

They'll still prevent the wheel from oscillating and losing traction. I'm thinking the oscillation will be at a higher frequency and lower amplitude due to the higher spring rate, but I'm not 100% sure that's true. The shock will need fairly aggressive damping.

F1 cars still run shocks, and in the 13" wheel era they actually got more suspension movement out of the sidewalls than the suspension.

In reply to Keith Tanner :

I talked with QA1 at PRI, they said they would like to see springs compressed 2-3 inches to make it easier for the shock to do its thing. This really confused me as most serious road race cars I don't believe have this much static compression. What brought this up is I believe my car is over sprung and I thought more movement would allow for smoother transitions/control.

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Scott in Chattanooga

You do want some shock movement to give yourself more control. A way to do that is a push/pullrod suspension to change the motion ratio. Sevens in general tend to have terrible motion ratios in the front.