802SHO 2010 Build

[Bronco2fan]

You just gotta remember that CF, if not prepped and ceramic coated properly, will break down in the rain and sun. Ask me how I know lol. My CF hood on my SN95 lasted about 5 years before I had to have it repaired and color match painted because the gel coat couldn't be fixed. But that's here in the Texas heat.

She's really looking good. Leaps and bounds ahead of us other part timers lol.

 

[yaycandy]

You just gotta remember that CF, if not prepped and ceramic coated properly, will break down in the rain and sun. Ask me how I know lol. My CF hood on my SN95 lasted about 5 years before I had to have it repaired and color match painted because the gel coat couldn't be fixed. But that's here in the Texas heat.

She's really looking good. Leaps and bounds ahead of us other part timers lol.

UV light will slowly destroy carbon fiber as it does with about anything thats in full contact with UV light. Just put a UV light cover on the car when its outside and it will be fine

 

[802SHO]

You just gotta remember that CF, if not prepped and ceramic coated properly, will break down in the rain and sun. Ask me how I know lol. My CF hood on my SN95 lasted about 5 years before I had to have it repaired and color match painted because the gel coat couldn't be fixed. But that's here in the Texas heat.

She's really looking good. Leaps and bounds ahead of us other part timers lol.

UV light will slowly destroy carbon fiber as it does with about anything thats in full contact with UV light. Just put a UV light cover on the car when its outside and it will be fine

Definitely don’t want an expensive part getting toasted in the sun. Thanks for letting me know your experiences with CF. I’ve never had real CF before so I appreciate it. It’s a garage queen so that will help. When I can take it out finally it’ll still not be a daily, but in a perfect world if I took it out 2-3 days a week in the summer for normal use, along with lots of detail products on it constantly, that should preserve it pretty well.

Aside from datalogs and going to the track, I’d drive it to the gym, maybe to some local car shows or car cruise. I don’t think I’ll ever be satisfied with it…..I won’t do anything all at once this drastic again, but I can see myself making some tweaks here or there adding or upgrading parts. If it all goes well I do expect to run through some transmissions, if that’s my main concern I’ll be content…perhaps learn how to swap it out a lot faster than the first time.

Opened up my Airlift management boxes, first glance is overwhelming, more parts than I envisioned. Sometimes to get a more comfortable overview is to lay the lines and wires out on the living room floor, and get the orientation worked out, connecting A to B to C to D to, etc. I’m sure there’s a picture in the instructions lol but before I look at those I like to see how I think they should go first. Lol. Sometimes the instructions make more sense after I gave it a whirl first.

I mounted the top portion of the aluminum seat delete. What I’m thinking is I can run my lines all to the back seat delete panel, drill holes and use grommets to show just a tiny portion of the lines and wiring, come out then directly into where it needs to go. I won’t care too much about what the inside of the trunk looks like.

 

[Nova]

Damn Drew! Shes looking amazing so far! Hey was that air suspension a plug and play kit as far as the bags and struts?

 

[802SHO]

Damn Drew! Shes looking amazing so far! Hey was that air suspension a plug and play kit as far as the bags and struts?

It took some minor modifications. The meat of the front strut bolts can’t pass through one side of the front strut. The holes they machined are too small (just on one side). I had to make that side larger then I touched them up with touch up paint.
Also the top holes in the strut tower you’ll find two holes are smaller than the other two. I had to make those two smaller holes larger to get the strut in place. I believe it was these two I made larger

The front sway bar I want to say sits a lot taller than it used to, but it’s been a while. In the rear was interesting and I’m not sure I found the solution quite yet, I’ll just have to check and verify once I get it on the ground or maybe a few drives.

The rear struts come with 2 large thick washers and a new strut bolt. I used one large washer on the bottom of the strut perch, and up top I took apart and reused the OEM rubber/metal washer that goes on top of the strut inside the car. Then used their nut.

For the bags in the rear, I watched a mustang video and he took the top and bottom rubber isolators out and put the bag in and there are threads in the top and bottom of the bag, he had a hole in the bottom of his lower control arm and he threaded a bolt through the bottom to secure the bag…….my kit didn’t come with a bolt and there isn’t a hole in the bottom of the lower control arm. I took the rubber isolator out of the bottom and it doesn’t sit flat, the bottom of the control arm isn’t flat it’s in the shape of a spring just like the rubber was, and sitting on the rubber it isn’t flat…..so I took it and cut most of it off so that it filled in the area that wasn’t flat I then tried to put the bag in without the top isolator and it can’t clear fully seat, so the top isolator actually is flat and I left it in place. So it’s the modified bottom rubber isolator and the top one left alone and it sits the best I could get it. I did go back and add a sliver of 1/8 abs to both lower control arms to stop any wiggle movement. I tried looking for something that I could buy that would sit in the lower control arm and fill in the spring indentation and off a flat top surface and I came up empty handed. For now it seems like it’s in a good spot.

 

[ChrisxHowe]

Loving the build! Your gonna love the air ride I finished up my Flex air ride a month ago and love it


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[802SHO]

Loving the build! Your gonna love the air ride I finished up my Flex air ride a month ago and love it


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I can’t wait! I just expanded my kit to include 1/4 stainless steel leader lines. I didn’t realize I am 15 min from Bag Riders. Lol! Hoping to join your bagged EcoBoost Flex soon!

 

[ChrisxHowe]

I can’t wait! I just expanded my kit to include 1/4 stainless steel leader lines. I didn’t realize I am 15 min from Bag Riders. Lol! Hoping to join your bagged EcoBoost Flex soon!

Damn lucky you Bagriders is fantastic I ordered a few things from them quality stuff


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[DadMobile]

I think I’m going to add one of those rollbar’s. The build looks so clean inside out, SEMA SHO! This thread has turned into SHO por n lol.

 

[Chuck Johnson]

Loving the build! Your gonna love the air ride I finished up my Flex air ride a month ago and love it


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post some pics

 

[802SHO]

Installing air suspension has been really cool so far, and expensive. I decided to upgrade most of the hardware (Lines, fittings) and so far I’d say I’m about $700 more into this, brining it up to $4k. One of the few things I did was get some 3/8 bulkhead fittings.
Which allow me to break up the lines into 3 sections. So lines running off the bags terminate to the trunk bulkhead. Then it’ll bc just connecting lines to the back of the seat delete bulkhead. And I’m using hard lines on the other side. I’ll share the complete install and what I bought when it’s completed. But just take a look at how it’s coming along.

 

[FiveLeeter918]

Installing air suspension has been really cool so far, and expensive. I decided to upgrade most of the hardware (Lines, fittings) and so far I’d say I’m about $700 more into this, brining it up to $4k. One of the few things I did was get some 3/8 bulkhead fittings. View attachment 85097
Which allow me to break up the lines into 3 sections. So lines running off the bags terminate to the trunk bulkhead. Then it’ll bc just connecting lines to the back of the seat delete bulkhead. And I’m using hard lines on the other side. I’ll share the complete install and what I bought when it’s completed. But just take a look at how it’s coming along. View attachment 85098View attachment 85099View attachment 85100View attachment 85101

Will lead to a much cleaner install, well worth the cost. Looks great man.

 

[Zpak]

Super clean man, that manifold looks killer.

 

[bpd1151]

Just. Simply. Impressive.

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[SeanDev]

Installing air suspension has been really cool so far, and expensive. I decided to upgrade most of the hardware (Lines, fittings) and so far I’d say I’m about $700 more into this, brining it up to $4k. One of the few things I did was get some 3/8 bulkhead fittings. View attachment 85097
Which allow me to break up the lines into 3 sections. So lines running off the bags terminate to the trunk bulkhead. Then it’ll bc just connecting lines to the back of the seat delete bulkhead. And I’m using hard lines on the other side. I’ll share the complete install and what I bought when it’s completed. But just take a look at how it’s coming along. View attachment 85098View attachment 85099View attachment 85100View attachment 85101

Absolutely wicked.

 

[802SHO]

All 4 corners (Struts/bags/lines installed and connected to trunk bulkhead 3/8” air line fittings.

Driver side front


Passenger side front


Rear lines. The braided stainless steel leader lines attach directly to a different 3/8 bulkhead.

The rear seat delete panel is 90% complete. I put it in the car to see what it looks like. I think I may cover the raw aluminum panel, I’m thinking a Matte Dark Gray vinyl. Stickers I bought are black. Just mocked them up.

I added flow valves. They are for the rear air bags only. The rear bags have the shortest air lines and the rear has the least amount of weight, so it’ll always air out with the rear dropping first. The flow valves control the air flow, so I can air out level with both front and rear the same speed.

The exhaust of the manifold will run out of the car, so the air out sound will be as loud as possible. The back of the panel….it made a smiley face haha! Now it’s connect the dots.

And I had help with this. My 21 year old cousin from NH, he’s going to school here in VT to be an electrical engineer. I’m paying him 30/hr. He’s very capable, I can show him how I want something and he does it. He bent all the hard lines and helped come up with the round flare out design of the lines. I don’t have much time to work on it bc I’m always working, so to be at work and have him working on it….priceless.

 

[SM105K]

Looks good and pretty clean. Nice job dude.

 

[DadMobile]

Thats so nice. Money might not buy happiness but it makes it easier haha. It’s good to hear you got some help with working on the build, I know how you small business owners no life it!

 

[802SHO]

Thats so nice. Money might not buy happiness but it makes it easier haha. It’s good to hear you got some help with working on the build, I know how you small business owners no life it!

Perfect description…no life is right

 

[FiveLeeter918]

Looks great man. Those bulkhead fittings really clean it up a lot, both going through the RSD as well as into the spare tire well.

The real question is gonna be though, can it bounce?