[DeTomaso] Hydraulics for Pantera - Dark Depression Sets in afterSilver ...

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

Tomas,
  Did you see JohnH';s post on Praxis air based system?
   
  md

Tomas Gunnarsson <guson at home.se> wrote:
  My understanding is that with a given air bag you can't change spring rate without changing ride height.

Tomas

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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Hydraulics for Pantera - Dark Depression Sets in afterSilver ...


> Hi MD!!!!
> 
> I already came up with a performance yet luxury solution for the patnera for 
> myself. 
> 
> My new suspension setup would have coil overs to replace the stock ones but 
> i'll have "air bags" either.. sitting on top of the whole coil over unit or.. 
> replacing the spring. If I replac the spring with the air bag, I can vary the 
> spring rate just by increasing or decreasing the air pressure.
> 
> Now that's the general concept of it.. it's better then using hydraulics, 
> and all it would need is a 12v air compressor you can mount in the front, a 
> tank, and some air lines and that's it.
> 
> For the convinence wise like on luxury sports vehicle, you can raise up the 
> front or lower it even more while your on the track and i'll incrase ur camber 
> as well for better corning ability (well to a certain degree) as well.
> 
> Also, air suspension setup also doesn't emit those annoying ghetto sound 
> when it release air so it's very "quiet" when it goes up and down.
> 
> Now... with that concept in hand, you can also built some nifty electronics 
> which I waht I plan to do.. you can have a sensor with a lever on it like on 
> my SL, and you can hook it up to a microchip or like a STAMP board unit.. 
> and... well you can have it automatically lower a certain amount after a certain 
> speed or.. over ride it with a flick of a switch to raise the rear or etc or 
> anything. Now the electronics basically allow the air solenoid to stop 
> filling or releasing air on each air bag so you could accurately... raise the car 
> up 1 inch.. or 2 inch.. or drop it the same amount. Hook it up to your VSS 
> (vehicle speed senor) if you have one.. or make your own and.. yea it'll adjust 
> by itself or smoething for performance usage.. well the idea is kind of 
> endless but I think you get my point MD :)
> 
> You also wouldn't want the rear end of your car to jump up so abruptly when 
> your traveling over 100 mph.. or you might lose the rear end as well. You can 
> easily allow air to go into each cylinder slowly so it raises up and down 
> slowly and not so sudden. :)
> 
> Best Regards,
> Larry
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