Air suspension ride quality?

hey guys,
      I'm new to the vip scene and i currently am starting a project car with my LS430 and i was having a dilelma about going with air suspension or the comfort type coilovers.  I have been hearing bad and good things about the air suspension one of them being that the ride quality gets crappier with it. i dont know who to believe and i figure this is the best place to turn. Thanks in advance guys!


(summary if its too long lol)
-air suspension makes ride quality good or bad?
-air suspension or regular comfort coilovers


thanks again!

if you got no shocks on an air ride suspension, its crappy.

I'm also interested to know the answer to this, but I'm guessing everything depends on the setup and pressures you ride with.

I'd love to see videos of people with airsus riding over different roads/driveways etc so i can see how the suspension responds. I always see pics of people slammed, but i want to see the real-life day-to-day driving situations!!

Unfortunately the only airsuspensioned cars i have seen locally are the $1500 Airbagit.com kits, which i suspect are not set up for practicality (or safety)...

I am not a personal fan of airbagit.com . The ride quality is something to get used to for my setup. I have a 1994 Toyota Previa with Air Runner suspension (the fronts are bolt-on airstruts and the rears are welded bags with adjustable dampening shocks). It can be bouncy at a certain height but nothing big. Other than that, it rides pretty smooth. Where are you from?

im from southern california and yeah i was gonna use the car for daily driving and i was looking at the air runner system or something to adjust the stock air suspension. thanks for the input.

oo also are the JIC or Tein comfort suspensions good?

thanks again for the feed back

Buy airunner, cheapest "out of the box" air suspension that will provide good ride quality. Keep in mind it will be harder to clear obstacles with coilovers rather then air.

do you have the UL (ultra luxury) edition? meaning stock air suspension? if so, PM robert, and buy a data systems air ride controller (or equivalent) and call it a day.

thanks guys this is helping me a lot! can you please keep the info moving


thanks again


josh

To add to the air suspesion disscussion:

When going from stock, is it wise to upgrade swaybars bushings, LCA's etc when going to air?  

also, kyb shocks + universal slipons decent setup?

thanks for all the info...

[QUOTE=jermdogg;41485]kyb shocks + universal slipons decent setup?
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if you get the adjustable kyb shocks, you got an airrunner setup right there.

if i see any of you at a meet in socal then you can test drive my LS w/airrunner

[QUOTE=xbizzle;41557]if i see any of you at a meet in socal then you can test drive my LS w/airrunner[/QUOTE]

can I drive it for the hell of it?

:p

I think asking someone's opinion on how the ride quality on an air suspension system is like asking someone how spicy is the food, everyone will have a different opinion. I have built a few systems (most with Universal Air Suspension bags) and everyone seems to like the ride. I guess if I have to compare it to another suspension, I would have to say it feels like Eibach Pro Kit springs on Tokico springs.

[QUOTE=V8_Aristo;41579]I think asking someone's opinion on how the ride quality on an air suspension system is like asking someone how spicy is the food, everyone will have a different opinion. I have built a few systems (most with Universal Air Suspension bags) and everyone seems to like the ride. I guess if I have to compare it to another suspension, I would have to say it feels like Eibach Pro Kit springs on Tokico springs.[/QUOTE]

not to jack the thread but i'm getting ready to buy a airbag setup for my 98 gs, and i'm buying a complete package from universal air is that whole setup just fine or do i have to buy other things too, any reponse would be great, from all others who have bought from them

yeah my friend has universal air in his camry and he said the ride blows compare to air runner setup. 

oo and kyb Agx's and springs will feel like an airrunner?

i think im just gonna use the stock air suspension with a controller.

thanks keep the info coming guys!

josh