Ride height itself has zero effect on shocks blowing. Most shocks blow due to not having enough travel or valving insufficient to handle the springs on them (sometimes a combination of the two). Lots of people try to get that “slammed” look by lowering the car really far. If you do that, you reduce the travel of the shock to almost nothing…so close to the bumpstops that you essentially bounce off of them all day. This particular situation can be corrected by using extended shock hats and also by eliminating the collar holding the brake lines (this allows the shock body to be pushed lower in the fork).
A shock does not care where it sits in it’s range of travel, but it does not like being close to the ends of it’s travel. All a shock does is resist movement (in either direction) at a given rate dependant on it’s valving. High rate spring + low rate valving = BLOW, same with the reverse.
truth, further proving why i chose k-sports over my example of the skunk2 set-up, whether the car is dumped or an inch above stock ride height you are never forced to bottom the struts out, or overextend them. Not saying anyone has never blown a k-sport, but atleast it isn’t a sure thing.