Your Comments Please on these "Air Struts"

[Ryan Cheung]

I came across Air Struts from Air Ride Technologies not too long ago while surfing through the net...

http://www.ridetech.com/productinfo/airstrut.asp

The claims are, "The AirStrut™ offers valving adjustment at the top of the strut stem... under the hood where it is accessible, not under the car. This valving adjustment means that you can choose soft for ride quality and cruising, all the way to full firm for autocrossing and ultimate handling performance.

The AirStrut™ is typically set up to deliver a 2" drop at ride height and up to 4" when deflated for parking lot profiling. Now there is no need to endure the harsh ride quality of lowered coils or air cylinders... or to cut up your car just to get it low. Bolt on the AirStrut™ and GO!"

I am interested in them bc they say 2" lower + no need to endure harsh ride quality...

Has anyone tried this product before or know of other people who have?? It's not the same as Air Bags by the way.

[Robin Toor]

Makes sense, instead of having compressed springs, you get a lowered car with air-ride so the ride is nice and smooth, and you can adjust the psi in the shock so it can be stiffer or softer. Theoretically it seems like it'll work, but then again for my car it seems like my bags are really holding me back, even when I do run high psi in them at the track.

[Paul Chernoff]

i've dealt with air suspensions for the past 8 years on my truck, and i dont believe there is such thing as a "nice and smooth" ride. The only way you'll get a decent ride out of it, is if the completly deflated height is only 2 or so inches less than drive height, cause the lower it goes, the more air pressure it takes to get it back up, if you want something to get u really low, dont expect a good ride out of it. Bags will ride better than cylinders cause there is more air volume to compress a bit, the bigger the bag, the better the ride , the less air pressure it takes to get it up, but bigger bags are too hard to fit in a strut suspension, thats why most people usually go with cylinders. Talking bout this makes me miss driving my truck, gotta get it back on the road  

[Andrew Scott]

Thats some awesome camber! You could do some 2-wheeled driving, and still have a full contact patch!

[Mike Meron]

its official you have graduated from fucking new guy dsm'er to fast dsm'er (in light of the 12.9) to PIMP.... way to go man!.

[Leon Hui]

what's bags and air cylinderes?

When you say the air ride defalte inflate, that means the length of the shock can be extended and retracted like JIC or the highend TEIN coilovers?