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Janner_Sy:
I remember being ast the Shark Performance open day last year. A lovely RS4 saloon came in and looked awesome. It then preceded to sink itself to the tarmac and IMO looked ridiculous. Completely ruined it.
Then i saw the install in the boot that made it possible, which IMO makes it an even bigger joke!!
The 3 guys there on air ride just stood there raising the cars up and down repeatedly, or making it into a trike so they could show people how to change a tyre without a jack. :indifferent: :indifferent:
Not my thing i know that. I cant stand the look of slammed cars, i think they look ridiculous.
2p
stealthwolf:
I think air ride can look awesome on the right cars. I think the issue becomes when the majority of cars are on air ride. But i guess it's all about trends and soon everyone will move on to something else.
JackG:
--- Quote from: jhtrophy on March 12, 2012, 05:55:23 pm ---don't know why your freakin del boy, I'm a big fan of air ride, but i don't need to go in one to know its not as good as a good RACE suspension, why not a gti or r32 because there supposed to be a performance car, to me air ride is decked scrapping the floor looking awesome, not much point having 200 bhp
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I agree with this,
It all come down to personal opinion, air does serve 2 Purposes which is to go low and them be able to raise it up again...that's why It was made...NOT to go around the ring :wink:
Let's take al for example...car is on air and on some nice wheels, he has a lovely interior...it's clear to see that al has spent some serious coin on the car and it shows, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't see al wanting to take his interior out and go around the ring to set some records, al enjoys the looks and fair play to the bloke
Most people on here are interested in how fast stuff goes...that's what the GTI golf is about..speed...go over to edition 38 and post in the new members section with a standard golf gti and your replays will be "space the rears out and set it on some lows" over here it's "get it mapped"
What I'm saying is that it's all personal opinion and as we're on the GTI forum your mostly going to get the "it doesn't make your handling better etc etc"
Me personally can't stand the low spaces out rears etc...it's way way way to common but it doesn't mean to say it doesn't look good, I'd feel a bit emotional if I spent 2K on some BBS RM's and 1.5K on air ride and went to a show and everything looked like mine,
My favourite car of the weekend was the old van on bricks! Went the complete opposite way to the "stanceworks scene" and the things flys....awesome :driver:
B3n:
--- Quote from: richwig83 on March 12, 2012, 05:47:08 pm ---
That video goes to prove nothing. Neither does saying a car with 600bhp has air so it must be up for the job.... Nope, doesn't prove anything.
Do BTCC cars run on air? Clio cup? DTM? F1? WRC cars?
Air serves 2 purposes and 2 only, and that is going low when sat still, and being able to raise it so you can actually drive the thing.
(4 things if you include burning your arches to the bare metal and smashing sumps) ;-)
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Just because those stated above don't run on air it doesn't mean that air wouldn't handle just as well especially after the same amount in years of R&D has been put behind them. I also imagine under these extreme enviroment's the teams would rather stick to the basic set up that coilover's provide plus the potential difference in weight between the 2 set up's.
I absolutely love the look of cars on air but would I have a kit fitted to my car?
Nope
I have absolutely no intention of modding my car to that level and the whole system would be wasted on me but then again so would coilovers.
But one thing that has been bugging me reading this thread is that people seem to be jumping on the ''I hate air/it handles like jelly bandwagon'' without even experiencing it for themselves. Perhaps next time you see someone at a R/R or meet instead of sitting there sniggering why dont you pop over and see if they would take you out in the car then come back and give your opinion :happy2:
Ben
JASGTI:
Bags are for fags. Go static or go home is the way I see it
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