I've been searching curiosly for a praxis suspenion or comporable air set-up. Anyone know if it's made for my car?

 

umm tell tell us what kind of car do you have? or else i would assume you have geo metro ... rofl

 

umm.. Let me think a second... Oh yea!... It's an ap2. For a minute there I thought I was in the NSX forum.

 

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I'm totally lost. Fill me in. (seriously)

 

He wants air bags and hydraulics for his S.

 

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I just spilled my 40oz arrogent bastard ale, dammit!

 

Oh wait I remember now. Praxxis(sp) had an air-spring coilover setup a while back. It was tested on a WRX I think. It's good for street/autox use, I guess. It wasn't the hip hop hydraulics I was thinking about.

 

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you owe me a stone microbrew beer

 

How do I owe you beer if you were lost and I had to explain it to you?


Modified by ProjektSlideways at 4:24 PM 4/7/2006

 

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if i remember correctly, praxis that are available right now is for
E46/E46 M3, WRX/STi.

They are adjustable air suspension that has 3settings
Track/Auto-X, Street, Dirt/Snow?

 

Yeah ive read somethings about them. Sounds like alot of work, however when they work they work great. But personally id rather get a good set of normal coilovers which work, set it up once, and never have to touch it again.

liam

 

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airbags? hydro's?

 

I can't be completely ignorant, that's just limiting myself.

 

The SCC wrx had those on for a while, and the swapped it out because it's not performaning too well compare to good ole' coilover

 

Well yes, it is a coilover (sorta) it has a similar center but the spring is replaced by an air bladder. It can be as comfortable or as agressive as you like. This tech. allows you to ride at normal height for comforts sake, or pulling in those lip pounding driveways. Wanna ride around and play on the backroads drop the car 2in. and taught the suspension. Or take it to the track and set it to "wagon" mode. The nice thing is that you never actually have to get out of the car to do this "push button"! It will also read the road if it's uneven, it will adjust itself. It's supossed to really keep your tires nailed down. I've seen it on an STI and a 3 series. You know... it's another toy and I was curious to find out how much fun it was to play with.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by texx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Well yes, it is a coilover (sorta) it has a similar center but the spring is replaced by an air bladder. It can be as comfortable or as agressive as you like. This tech. allows you to ride at normal height for comforts sake, or pulling in those lip pounding driveways. Wanna ride around and play on the backroads drop the car 2in. and taught the suspension. Or take it to the track and set it to "wagon" mode. The nice thing is that you never actually have to get out of the car to do this "push button"! It will also read the road if it's uneven, it will adjust itself. It's supossed to really keep your tires nailed down. I've seen it on an STI and a 3 series. You know... it's another toy and I was curious to find out how much fun it was to play with.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'd have to say avoid it with the experiences I've had with pneumatic air suspension setups. A friend of mine that tracks his MB e320 sport (go figure) has the sport pneumatic suspension. It's a POS. I drove it at two road courses and an auto-x when I was instructing and helping him out. It was plush but slow to react on quick weight transfers (slaloms, low speed sharp turns, esses).

After the last track session, he asked me to see what was up since the car wasn't very responsive. It had all the symptoms of a blown shock. At 45,000 miles, the shocks had to be replaced within the bags, and the pump had to be replaced since it was leaking. Luckily it was under warranty. The air pump is noisy when charging the system, it's also slow to react on elevation changes (uphill, downhill) where the suspension has to adjust to leveling out the car. It's complicated which increases the number of things that can go wrong. It's cool that you can raise and lower the car with a touch of button, as well as firm up the ride too. But I wouldn't expect longevity/reliability of the system and it's probably better to get it on a car that comes from the factory.