Brandon's 2012 ISM STI

Ok so here the update from this past weekend. I have everything installed but through the confusion and excitment I realized I dont have the right management system for the suspension. I was suppose to be running the V2 Management system but I have the manual lol oh my hah but thank fully Air Lift is amazing as a they took care of me a,d offered to upgrade me from the V2 to the 3P management system so that is already on the way and hopefully next weekend ill have that in but I will show how I installed the manual one for ****s and gigs.


So first, just a look at the rear struts installed and everything hooked up.







Its a pretty straight forward install. But the only issue I have is it seems the rear passenger is banging a lot. I thought first my hardwood trunk was making the banging sound but I do believe it might be something in the strut assembly so I will look into later this weekend when Im off again.


Pics of the front installed.






The install instructions seemed to be of very good quality. The hardest part of the install was running the lines.


So heres where we drilled a hole and threaded a hole for the hose connection that runs down to the front bags. Did the same thing on both sides.

Heres what it looks like with the connection installed on the drivers side.





and then the passenger side. with a close up





and this one shows where we ran the hose for the passenger side bag.





This is the passenger side rear





and the driver side rear








The the trumk was put in place and ran the wires. Ended up cutting a hole just to the left of the compressor for the wiring. Now the only issue I had with this was the red and black wire that ran to the relay it seems to not make a good connection so might take the relay out and adjust the connections.





Just showing how we bolted them down.








I ended up using self tapping screw with a nice clean cap to keep the wood down. I drilled into the metal frame that would support your spare tire and the hard styro foam that covers it.

Next we ran the lines for the gauges which wont be used in the new setup and also the switches. So here is where we labelled where the lines came from.








So these are the supplied Ts that came with the kit. Very nice connections.





and here is where we ran the lines in the driver side, just above the peddles. Tie wrapped them up after for a cleaner look.





and then this was the passenger side connections.






This is where we wired in the gauges. It was only for the light inside the gauge.





This is with all the lines ran to the a pillar. I labelled the lines with coloured tie wraps.








Gauges installed

and here was the connections for the switches





and the only other thing was when we started back at the tune my pressure was down so I adjusted the fuel pressure and down some more logs.





also got the gauge re-mounted

So I got some pics of the recent setup but its only shitty cell ones due to the battery on my DSLR isnt working lol

Nice work. That system is sweet. How many presets can you have?

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Dude, that is insane!! Don't you dare ever come to the tristate area or you'll break your car! :tard:

IGOTASTi said:

Nice work. That system is sweet. How many presets can you have?

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Well with the manual you have zero lol but the system that will be put in next week has 3 presets I do believe

Alin said:

Dude, that is insane!! Don't you dare ever come to the tristate area or you'll break your car! :tard:

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Thats the beauty of air suspension lol the front when fully up has 5 fingers and the back has 3 lol

Can't wait to see pics of the car lifted to max height! :lol:

[MENTION=1]IGOTASTi[/MENTION] its 5 presets lol just checked lol I will def get a pic for you [MENTION=1172]Alin[/MENTION] with it fully lifted hahah

Little update again lol I got the new 3P Management system and its beautiful.


So here it is. Hoping to get a chance to switch over the system during this week or perhaps next weekend.


So first as per usual the instructions.





the system came in an awesome box lol ill prob keep it haha





Opening of the box





Amazing quality controller





and the manifold which again is amazing lol


so the plan is to face the manifold with the air line connections facing the tank so all the lines car run under the tank for a cleaner look.


An issue I ran into was the connections in the relay kept coming off so we rewired it too a female plug and just hooks right up to the replay.


Some other little things I have planned is to mount a sub and amp and prob suede the trunk liner

Got a tiny little update from yesterday.


So unboxed everything and had a read down through the instructions. Seems preety straight forward.


So here is it all unboxed.





Car up on jack stands.





Rerouted the lines back to the trunk for the manifold.





Had to rerun the fron line due to them being too short from the switches but that was simple.





We think we pinpointed the noise in the rear so we took care of that and in the front driver it seemed that the lines where hitting up against the fender causing the knock. So rerouted that and tie wrapped the others back so hopefully that handles that.

Another little update;


Got the manifold mounted and the lines ran to the manifold as well as the electrical for the manifold.





Lines ran back behind the tank







Connection from the back





All tidied up





This is the relay we did for a better connection.





Mounted the relay up behind the tank





and made sure it all started and no leaks lol

Looking great so far.

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IGOTASTi said:

Looking great so far.

Love the pics! 

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Thanks guys!

Wow, that's nice! Great, thorough updates! :tup:

Hmmm I think I found Waldo. He is hiding in the back seat. Either that or Freddy Krueger. Either way, looking good brother. Once you get it dialed in would like to see some of the pic's of ride hight at the different presets.

Alin said:

Wow, that's nice! Great, thorough updates! :tup:

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Thanks!

Raven32 said:

Hmmm I think I found Waldo. He is hiding in the back seat. Either that or Freddy Krueger. Either way, looking good brother. Once you get it dialed in would like to see some of the pic's of ride hight at the different presets.

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HAHAHAH yea good ole waldo.

Here is some pics. Good some adjustments left to make but this is her bagged. [MENTION=1]IGOTASTi[/MENTION] you can def use these lol

That looks sweet man, is that all the way down? what she look like for cursing around town?