Well, they've finally arrived... and it was worth the wait. AirLift has completely redesigned their kits for our rides. The most obvious change is the billow bags instead of sleeve bags. AirLift's new "Lifestyle" line of struts feel and look very well crafted, much better than the Easy Street kits. A couple specs so far are as follows: 50-125 psi operating range, and 4 1/2" of stroke from deflated stationary position to bottomed out. Cant wait til this weekend, then i get to install em' and have a little fun.

 

do you know if the shock is hydrolic or gas? they look good. how much did they end up costing? i wonder if you will still have to raise the towers to lay the front.

 

The shocks appear ( sound like ) to be hydraulic, and the adjustable dampening gives them a wide range of stiffness ( just compressing by hand ). All in all, the struts cost me about $650, which isn't tooo expensive. They fit into my budget, but you can definitely get it done for cheaper ( universal kit ). I don't think i'll be layed out with just the struts. Part of me wants to drag frame and throw sparks, but the other part doesn't want to thrash my ride... decisions. I guess i'll see what happens on saturday

 

DONE... got em on, and its bad ass. She sits about 5" lower now, and still has about 2" of frame clearance. I could put on my drag blocks, but i'm not sure if wanna do it yet. The hardest part of the strut swap wast the removal of the old strut bolts... but i just needed a bigger hammer . the new struts were a complete ready to bolt in setup ( the easystreet kit used old parts from the struts). I'm just glad its over, and with the terrible weather, my "couple of hours" project ended up takin about 8 hours. new pics coming soon

 

dragging is cool but its also a pain. it will leave little specs of metal stuck in your paint on the rear hatch and bumper. thats the main reason i ended up painting mine. you shouldnt have much trouble with the cv joints at that height. just remeber how close the pan on the motor is to the ground if you do drag it. i wore out some 5/8" plate on mine pretty fast and now that its gone i think im done dragging fast. ill still drag in parking lots to scare people though.
let me know if you get much wobble when your riding low and accelerate. my tire has to untuck from the fender or it shakes but thats where the bag rides best.
post pics here
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here are the pics of how i added an inch to the rear

 

Separated at birth?

 

yeah, i hear ya about the wobble when i'm tucked. thought somethin was broke at first, but it's just the horrendous camber. but, after i'm at ride height, it rides damn smooth. as for dragging, i dont plan on doing it too often. I'm gettin the welder at work to make me some grind plates out of 1" slabs, so they should hold up a little bit. mostly i wanna drag at the next car show ( Siknik ) they got an area for dragging. oh, and i gotta tub the front fender wells too. when i slam it, i'm sittin on the engine bay.
XXL... that is bad ass, and i love the rear bumper too ( i gotta do mine like that ). what kind of plastic welder are you using? I wanna get one so i can shave my bumpers.

As you can see, I can only squeeze 2 fingers between the gap

And this is where i'm sittin when i slam

got a couple more pics in my gallery too...

 

It's an old Forsthoff handheld unit. Works great for small amounts of work. I've yet to shave the front bumper, but that's on the list. I then have some sheetmetal plans that are going to cause a few double-takes. Until then...

 

so that pic of the frame compared to the ground is with it layed out? and it sitting on the humps in the fender? thats way lower than i thought it would be. how much further do you think it will go? that would be nice if it layed without raising the towers.