At the begining of July '05, I had finally got the cash together to get working on the fronts. After contacting another person on the baggedbirds site, I found out that a place called CHASSISTECH.COM made a front "airstrut" for my car, that was real reasonable in price. Now there were a few paths I could have chosen to bag the front. I could have made my own brackets for an AirRideTechnologies airstrut, but being that I don't know how to weld, that choice was scraped, along with copying a design using a conventional bag and shock that the owner of baggedbirds uses. My only other choice was a place called SIC MOTORSPORTS. So after calling them for a week straight and either not getting an answer, or being told that someone will call me back with the info, I gave up and went with these:
One plus to these bags is that they have a 1/2" orifice compared to a 1/4" orifice of the ART/SIC airstrut. I added the swivel fitting to these so the airline can move when the car is raised and lowered, because of the orifice being on the bottom side of the airstrut.
So out went the original strut, and 3 pieces where taken off to be put back on the new bags.
Here is the bag in the car, with the air line running up into the engine compartment, and a view of the motor with both side's airline sticking up
After getting both sides in and putting the wheels back on the car, I put blocks under the tires and let the jack down to see if the car will lay out when the bags are deflated.
this is looking up at the bag. The only thing that is not good with these type of airstruts is that the hose hangs out in the open, and can be rubbed against or have debris hit it and possibly cause some damage to the line/fitting.
This is where the dump valve is located, right on top of the strut tower. The fill valve is back in the trunk, as there is just not enough room in these engine compartments to put both of them together and still run the line smoothly.