Hey guys
Anyone installed Air ride suspension? How does it handle, what's the ride quality? Any pro or cons of the Air ride suspension would be greatly appreciated.
P.S: What obstacles do you face during winter months.
It handles decently better than stock, the ride quality sucks, and my car gets parked for the winter. Im on Airlift's Easystreet kit.
Tinkles
2003 Cavalier 1SV
Bagged and Blown
not somethin i wanted to hear tinkles haha
im surprised the ride quality sucks. that i dont get. can you not adjust your stiffness?
Familiar Taste of Poison.
You can adjust your stiffness, but I think I can explain what he means by the sucky ride quality. The slightest bump, and or dip in the road causes the bags to transfer air throughout themselves making the car go up and down basically. It's not like you hit a bump and its over, that @!#$ is brutal at times. ABS sucks at this time too.
I daily drove my care for almost 3 years with the easystreet kit, and it really wasnt too terrible, just keep up on making sure your tank doesnt have water, your valves dont have crap in them, and you should be alright. pot holes will be your worst enemy though, but I doubt people with stock suspension would just full on plow into them, so I'm sure you'll be fine.
Twisted Cav(sdwndr2) wrote:You can adjust your stiffness, but I think I can explain what he means by the sucky ride quality. The slightest bump, and or dip in the road causes the bags to transfer air throughout themselves making the car go up and down basically. It's not like you hit a bump and its over, that @!#$ is brutal at times. ABS sucks at this time too.
A valve and dump for each bag solves this problem.
KevinP (Stabby McShankyou) wrote:
and I'm NOT a pedo. everyone knows i've got a wheelchair fetish.
i drive my car every day with my air ride its not bad u just gotta find the right setting on the struts and the psi u wanna ride at.
i drove mine for almost 3 years. one year i drove it about 150-200 miles to school and back twice a week
some people just have a dump and fill for the front and the same for the rear. so the air can move freely from side to side, so if you hit a bump on your left tire the wheel compresses pushing air thru to the right side.
me i have a dump and fill for each wheel and i was surprised at how good it rode. now riding with too much psi in the bags will cause things to get bouncy, but where im riding at its a very smooth ride, bumps are harsh but not much diffrent then running my koni yellow and ground controls..
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Do yourself a favor and run 8 valve setup, 2 on each corner. At the very least 4 valves on the front. Sharing an air "ballast" on the front steering tires can cause a huge "body roll" type feeling.
