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Hi guys, new to Stance Works and new to air suspension and "stance" generally however not a newbie when it comes to cars and fabrication - I'm quite at home when it comes to track and race cars!
The reason I've signed up to the boards is because I'm planning on installing air suspension to my current daily come tow car, which is a B5 Audi S4 Avant. I had never been interested in air however I've been swayed towards it for the following reasons -
1. I'll be using it to tow the track car and a pet **** of mine is the look of a tow car dragging its arse on the tarmac
2. I do like the look of a low car....
3. ...and the traffic dodging back road out of work has mountains as speed bumps!
4. (and possibly most important here) A mate of mine sold me a new firestone kit he removed from another car (not an Audi) so cheap I couldn't refuse.
I'll get pictures up of what I've got already - a compressor, tank, McPherson bag-over struts which look universal, 2 brand new bellows for beam axle type rear suspension (which will be up for sale/swap), control panel with 2x manual paddle switches and twin gauge.
From today's browsing I'm finding I should look to get another 2 paddles and gauge as a minimum so I'm not bleeding air side to side round corners.
The front setup should be fairly simple, I'm planning on modifying some dampers to accept the bagovers and it should just bolt up like stock.
The rears are more likely to cause problems - mainly with clearance due to the quattro. Here are a couple of links to other projects that show what I'm working with.
Link 1
Link 2
As you can see, space is tight and I don't think I'd get away with bellows. Anyone able to make any suggestions? Would sleeves be up to the load of towing? Do either of the bag setups linked look like off the shelf / universal bags?
And final question for now - I do around 45k motorway miles a year - all year round. How reliable is air and are there any precautions you'd advise?
Thanks in advance guys!
Andy
The reason I've signed up to the boards is because I'm planning on installing air suspension to my current daily come tow car, which is a B5 Audi S4 Avant. I had never been interested in air however I've been swayed towards it for the following reasons -
1. I'll be using it to tow the track car and a pet **** of mine is the look of a tow car dragging its arse on the tarmac
2. I do like the look of a low car....
3. ...and the traffic dodging back road out of work has mountains as speed bumps!
4. (and possibly most important here) A mate of mine sold me a new firestone kit he removed from another car (not an Audi) so cheap I couldn't refuse.
I'll get pictures up of what I've got already - a compressor, tank, McPherson bag-over struts which look universal, 2 brand new bellows for beam axle type rear suspension (which will be up for sale/swap), control panel with 2x manual paddle switches and twin gauge.
From today's browsing I'm finding I should look to get another 2 paddles and gauge as a minimum so I'm not bleeding air side to side round corners.
The front setup should be fairly simple, I'm planning on modifying some dampers to accept the bagovers and it should just bolt up like stock.
The rears are more likely to cause problems - mainly with clearance due to the quattro. Here are a couple of links to other projects that show what I'm working with.
Link 1
Link 2
As you can see, space is tight and I don't think I'd get away with bellows. Anyone able to make any suggestions? Would sleeves be up to the load of towing? Do either of the bag setups linked look like off the shelf / universal bags?
And final question for now - I do around 45k motorway miles a year - all year round. How reliable is air and are there any precautions you'd advise?
Thanks in advance guys!
Andy
lol.
Basically the bottom of the bag is bolted to a circular plate welded directly to the damper body which creates the bottom seal. At the top the circular plate has a seal against the shaft of the damper to create the top seal. Been looking for pictures online but can't seem to find anything similar. 
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