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Sean
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Air Ride Kits
« on: September 16, 2006, 04:31:42 PM »

Does anyone know of a company who makes a good air ride kits for the avenger sebrings???
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2006, 09:11:43 PM »

There are really NO kits for the veng/bring chassis ... Any 95/99 eclipse kit WILL work you might have to get a higher pressure reg since a V6 will take about 150psi to raise the front end ...

http://www.excentrixauto.com/

There are so many companies now a days that sell air ride, im not gonna be able hit all of them.

To start off im going to list a couple compaines to stay away from.
Any thing under the names of Chassis Tech, Airbagit.com, or AIM. Most of you probably already know about AIM and all of them are the same compaines. Everything they sell is junk, period. Stay away from it. Yes it is cheaper, but will fall apart in no time.

Alrite now for what you need for a complete air ride set up

4 air cylinders or strut bags (i dont have any experience in them for these cars)
4 inch in the front and either 4 or 3 inch for the back.
Eclipse Brackets, upper and lowers.

50ft roll of 1/2 in DOT approved air line.
50ft roll of 1/4 in DOT approved air line.

Fittings. For this i will draw a diagram up later to show you the easiest way along with all of the fittings needed for that set up. Ill post it here when i get it done.

3 air gauges
2 dual needle gauges and one single needle gauges.
The duals will be the pressure in the cylinders
The single is for tank pressure.

Compressors.
Get one rated at 200 psi. Id suggest 2 viair 380s or one air zenith

Tank.
Atleast 8 gallons of air. Cylinders take a lot of volume to raise. You can go bigger so you can play with it longer.

Switch box
Your choice

That covers the basis on what youll need to start out on

Where to buy cylinders?
www.masterimagecustoms.com

They sell SMC cylinders and that is what i highly suggest to use. There are other companies of course. EAI is no longer in business but universal air bought them out. The sell the EAI X AIR cylinders but ive heard a lot of horror stories from them already. I had EAI royal blues on mine and they are junk as well. The only cylinders i suggest running are the SMCs unless you can find a used set of Brislands. The company went out of business a few years ago but those were some beefy ass cylinders.

For everything else.
Pretty much www.suicidedoors.com has about the lowest prices. Great customer service and will help you out with everything else that you need.

Installation. (Pics will come as soon as i get some time to take pics of everything)
The cylinders are very easy to mount up. Start off on the back of the car. Loosen wheel nuts and jack car up. Use jack stands to support car. Remove wheel. Loosen the lower bolt that holds the lower strut on. Its a 17mm socket. Now you need to get inside the car to the upper bolts. Remove the side panels on the seats and take off the plastic trim piece on the top. There will be 2 14mm bolts. Remove them. Now the strut can come out. Bolt the upper and lower brackets onto the cylinders. Install the cylinder in the same order as removing the strut. Before you do this you can drill a hole in the back of the mounting location of the strut to feed your air line through.

For the front it is the same thing. 1 17mm bolt on the lower strut and 3 14mm bolts at the top. Remove and install in the same order.

Air line running. This is really up to you. You can run it inside the car or underneath the car. Anywhere you drill a hole to run line through make sure you use a grommet around the line to prevent it from rubbing through and ruining the line.

Air tank and compressor.
usually youll mount it in the trunk. This is up to you tho. Anyways, Pick a spot and make sure you bolt the tank down. Find a spot for the compressor and bolt that down as well.

Pretty much the easiest way to mount the valves is on the tank. If you buy a 8 gallon 8 port tank you are set. Moutn your valves right to the front 4 ports on the tank. I will post a few diagrams that show a couple set ups.

8 valves


Air compressor wiring
how to
You do need a relay to hook up the compressor. Forgot that above

Switch box wiring
How to

There will be much more to come but i have to get ready for work.
Hope this helps out some for now



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« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2006, 11:42:39 PM »

you dont know how much help that was to me, i work at a shop i just know nothing about the systems i can guess how they work but it sounds like the only real trouble would be the wiring and such. i knew nothing about the companys who makes these products thanks so much for all the info about the good and bad it was very useful.
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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2006, 12:01:19 AM »

what are the cylinders for???
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2006, 12:43:16 AM »

Air cylinders replace the stock struts/springs to provide air suspension ...
You can also get air struts that have bags on top and use strut mounts top/bottom  http://www.easystreetair.com.



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« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2006, 08:27:38 PM »

pm me for ne ?s as well.. for cylinders, only buy EAL or brislands..brislands are rare. so gl.. any thaing else ie chassi tech and aim are crap and they WILL FAIL. or u can use the easy street bag/shock combo, its really good, its what i use now, i use to have eai cylinders, which are for sale fyi..bad venge is 100% on. the eclipse kit will work just fine, bracketry wont change either..let me know if u have questions or need parts i can get them at a really good price.. ie those easy stret bag/strut combos, run 500, i can get them for 400 if ur interested.. GL on the air ride!
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« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2006, 07:26:15 PM »

this is jerid from suicidedoors.com,  just letting you know that air kit for the avenger or sebring does exist now.  I actually just got one yesterday soo....

you guys can pick them up all day long
just give me a call and i'll let you know

jerid  812-782-3581 ext 224

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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2006, 06:35:12 AM »

thats good to know!
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