This was my quick little update on my web site.
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Well, I've been tossing around the idea of putting Air Ride on my Mustang for a while now. I finally decided to go ahead with it. After talking to Darren at Air Ride Technologies, I decided to go with their CoolRide setup. For now, I'll just keep the shocks and struts that I have, but I'll be looking into some double adjustable Billsteins.
Along with the ART CoolRide, I purchased a 3gal tank and a Thomas 317 compressor off of Ebay. I also sourced the digital pressure gauge and the Asco 3/8" solenoid valves from Ebay. I mounted it all to a piece of 3/4" MDF and used the original trunk carpet to cover it.
I test wired the entire setup before installing any of in the car. If anyone is looking for a way to simulate a car battery for such purposes- here is what I did. I bought a 450W ATX computer power supply. It put out 20A on each of 2 outputs. It worked really well for testing the compressor, solenoids, gauges etc. Once I have the entire management system complete in the car, I'll proceed to tear down the suspension
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I'm going to have a buddy of mine laser out a stainless switch panel that will mount under my ashtray door, so they can be hidden.
Side Note: whatever paint is used on the Firestone air tanks does not like to be painted over. I sanded it down and sprayed some primer over it. It curled up like I put stripper on it. So the I ended up having to strip it all to bare metal and start from scratch. It ended up being a bunch of work for something that will be hidden in the trunk, but oh well!
Later,
Brandon
