(cardboard drumming)
- I'm excited as, Giles, do you know why I'm excited?
- Uh
- Because we get to talk about Air Lift,
and I love Air Lift.
- I always thought it was that your PlayStation 5
was finally gonna show up.
- I did get one of those. Anyways.
Not to bring up Xbox versus PlayStation 5,
because that's a whole another thing,
but I guess we're talking about static versus Air
a little bit.
And I'm going to go in deep because I have Air Ride
on both my vehicles and I love it.
But recently, Mario, who works with us,
picked up an Air Ride kit for his
R35GTR.
- [Giles] Hell yeah.
- So this is an Air Lift Performance,
3P suspension kit.
We're going to be unboxing, going through
wheel, tires, suspensions, fitmentindustries.com.
- Including, of course, Air Lift Performance.
- Yeah, not to mention we have 10% off
right now on the website.
This only comes around one time a year.
Go on fitmentindustries.com,
and order your Air Lift kit now,
because this is when the sale is in.
The only downside of Air, really, is the cost.
But, if you're getting a deal on it.
- There's no downside
- Tell your wife, tell your girlfriend there's a deal on it.
so you just got to buy it and then they'll...
- All right, let's get into it. I'm excited.
- So Mario's little grubby hands had opened up part of this
because he was too damn excited.
And I said, "Stop! I wanna unbox it for a video."
- Ow.
- Mario pisses me off.
(cymbals crash)
- So I'm assuming obviously this is a five gallon tank.
Hopefully you got the polished one.
That one always looks nice.
You can go with a raw finish tank;
it's one of the selections on there.
Cause a lot of people like to do like a powder coat,
which is understandable, and that looks good too.
- A lot people have plans to do powder coat,
and then they just leave it raw.
- Yeah that's me.
(Giles laughing)
- So the polished one I got for my GTI
and it does-oh...
- Oh yeah, you got, he got the polished one.
Hell yeah
- Woohoo. So five gallon is the pretty common size
you're gonna see a lot.
This is what I have both,
in my Focus ST and my GTI.
And what that allows you to do, is, like,
Alex has a really small tank in his Ferrari.
So if he airs it up,
sometimes it even takes a little bit extra time.
'Cause there's not enough pressure in the tank
to go to all four struts.
So a five gallon
- [Giles] Oh my gosh
- allows you to play with it a little bit.
You air it up more, you air it up done,
and you got extra PSI in your tank.
And then you get to see,
the polished one is just absolutely gorgeous.
- [Giles] You're going to play with it.
There's just, no, way
- No I've never slapped an air tank,
but that ain't going to stop me.
(metal twanging)
- Nice.
- Now you got your grubby big hands on it.
- That's fine.
- All right. As long as they're not a little, eh?
- Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. So super nice tank.
You have the airlifting engraving on the bottom polished.
Gonna mount this in the trunk.
You got your ports right there.
You have port on the bottom.
So, all your airlines coming out,
(gushing sound)
- Through the bottoms for your drain
- And the bottom,
- The brottom (laughs)
is for the drain to get expel all your,
(gushing sound) when you air out,
'cause that's one of the best parts when you air out you
(gushing sound)
I put mine outside.
'Cause I like when it airs out and its loud and its cool ,
I got Air Ride.
(gushing sound) (laughs)
- I'm going to go put this--.
- All right.
So that's all we had in that box
- So here's like--
- Take the guts.
- Yeah. The tank was pretty straight forward.
Now we get into
- The guts.
This is what makes,
oh God, I'm going lose all the hardware.
All right. So, how much of hardware for mounting the tank?
There's going to be a lot of elbows, other fittings.
- Don't lose those
- Those actually come all Teflon taped already.
That's pretty nice.
- Don't lose those.
I definitely recommend picking up some Teflon tape,
or plumbers' tape, whatever you want to call it.
You're going to be using a decent amount of that.
And then yeah.
So there's just parts of everything that's in there,
nothing too shady.
(wooshing sound effect)
- You don't need that
- He'll figure it out,
and then get that box out of there.
Ooh. More knife time. Give me knife time. So...
- Oh yeah looks like we got our compressor.
- Taking a little peek-skee at least.
We got the compressor for your setup right now.
- So hold on to that. I'm going to open up this box.
- You always get to do all the cutting.
- Yeah I thought Mario got a dual compressor side.
What I would recommend if you do have a little bit of extra
cash going with a dual compressor set up is worth it.
Just because when you air out,
you got both compressors,
or you have only one compressor running,
it takes a little bit to fill up your tank.
It's not bad, totally doable.
Both my cars I run the single compressor.
But, if you have the option
I'd say go dual compressor.
The Viair compressors, super reliable.
You can actually, I don't think a lot of people realize,
but you can mount these on the outside of your vehicle as
well.
- Sure
- They're made to handle that.
You put it in an inconspicuous spot obviously
somewhere probably around your rear bumper.
So, I mounted both mine,
since I have hatches in the rear,
where the spare tire is,
and that's where my mount is.
Some rubber bushings there to
kind of help with sound deadening and everything like that.
You just want to be,
a little mindful where you mount it.
You don't wanna...
it needs air obviously. - Right
And then they get hot too,
if you know, it's struggling to get air.
So you want to make sure - So a little bit of
you've got some ventilation. - ventilation.
in there as well
- Well, all right.
So in here it looks like we got like
the brains of everything.
So, let me take this out here.
This is where the 3P comes in.
So the actual management itself.
- This is the brains of the guts.
- That's really nice.
- Brains of guts.
- Gut brains.
- Pull this little sleeve off right here.
- [Giles] Air Lift Performance 3P.
- So when you open her up,
yeah, it's super cool here they're showing you.
You got the app that you can download on your phone,
so you can actually control all
of your Air Lift goodies from your phone.
And then I'm not going to open this up now,
but they do have an install guide that they include with it.
It is one of the best install guides,
full color pictures,
detailed explanations.
- Specific for your vehicle.
- Yeah, makes it easy.
It's pretty straight forward.
I really liked their installation.
- We did both on, on the E30
and then on your GTI it was nice to follow.
So it was like different cars have just like those weird
things where it's like, Oh a GTI!
You gotta like drill out holes.
And here's the template for you to drill the holes and then
you do it backwards.
And then you drill two holes in Dakota's car
and then he gets a little mad.
- And then not only that, but they give you a game boy.
Here's the controller.
- Is it a Game Boy color?
- You can take this piece out
and you can rotate it and put it in.
So if you want to mount your controller sideways
you can do that.
I just keep mine like this.
Yeah. This is a nice little plug in, in the back.
Or you can use the app on your phone--either one works.
I generally use the controller just because
it's right there in my car.
I keep it in the cup holder.
And I actually have a mount in my ST for the controller.
So yeah. And then here's the brains.
- That packaging is really nice.
- Yeah. Here is the brains of the operation right here.
- Yep. So that's actually all the valves and everything?
- Yep. Here is your manifold.
Don't wanna open this up.
You'd see where all the airlines come out right here.
Send in, what PSI?
- It's already open.
- Oh, is it?
- Each beside to each corner of the bags and make sure
everything's all good to go.
Air Lift in the instruction states
how you should mount it, where you should Mount it.
You don't want to be up the mountain upside down because
moisture will naturally just go into your tank from
condensation and everything like that.
So you want to make sure water
isn't getting into this bad boy,
but you set it up with the install and your water trap.
It'll all be great. You baby.
I promise.
So there's some other little goodies in here.
Like you got your airline cutter. This is really nice.
- That's a nice touch.
- You do not want to just like grab scissors
- You absolutely want one of those.
- And lop it off.
You want an airline cutter because if you have a nice
straight cut on your airline,
you're not going to have any issues with the fitting.
So you literally lay your airline rate in there and you
just, and it makes a perfectly straight cut
up and down and then you won't have any leaks, any issues.
So it's really nice that they include that.
- What else we got here?
- Oh more wires, and cables, and stuff.
- Bearings, hardware, all that sort of stuff.
Imagine we have our air line tomorrow,
one with a quarter-inch airline,
which is the way to go perfectly fine.
So it's a lot of questions that we get, Oh,
should I go with quarter inch or three eights
what's the difference?
- Quarter inch is what I run all my cars.
- Basically it's just how fast
it's changing the air to move.
Quarter inch is perfectly fine.
It's a nice air out that you see it on the videos.
Three eights it's like, trust me.
It just the quarter inch will be just fine. All right.
- There's kind of why you would change that
and why there is an option
depending on how heavy your vehicle is
and things like that.
But most of the time you're going to want quarter inch.
- Yeah.
So with this, I get the nice spool of quarter inch line.
They also got our harnesses.
What else we got in here? There you go.
- Oh yeah. A bunch of fittings,
we are going to be using these a lot.
You can see a lot of them are Teflon taped already,
but again, I would pick up some extra.
It's real cheap at the hardware store.
Just when you're doing your install. It's nice.
And then here we can see the water trap.
What this will do is you have a line
coming out the bottom of this,
but it goes in between your manifold and the tank,
and then any moisture that's coming through,
this is going to trap and that's going to blow out.
So that way you're not getting any water in your lines or
anything like that.
And then there's some other fittings and stuff too.
- So then you have your whole harness for your management,
all that kind of stuff, ready to rock and roll.
It's nice and protected with like the braided cover and
everything like that.
- And they make it so easy.
They literally plug and play.
a couple little spots you gotta, like,
put it in with your fuse and things like that.
But otherwise super easy to run.
- Yeah. They always say, if you're gonna hook up subs,
you're gonna hook up Air Lift.
- Literally. And they give you a decent amount of airline.
I was left with a little bit extra when we did my GTI,
and you want to keep that extra
just in case anything were to ever happen.
The biggest thing when installing is just make sure...
the line isn't rubber, it's like a plastic hard plastic.
It's not going to pinch your squeeze, but when you run it,
make sure there's no kinks.
Make sure it's not going to catch on anything and rip.
And then, you know,
just make sure you run them properly the first time.
But keep a little bit extra just in case.
You never know what happens.
If anything were to fling up and hit underneath and
something happens like that.
It's always good to have extra,
but they will give you the full amount
that you need for your ride.
So, Mario actually got his grubby little hands
on the struts right away,
and they're getting put in the car right now.
So instead I took one of our Air Lift struts
that we have on hand, on deck,
that's not getting put in a car at the moment.
This is what you can expect.
This isn't an R35 strut.
So this is actually for a Lexus IS200
to give you about the same idea.
- It's probably for the rear too 'cause usually
the front ones, they do have some sort of...
- They have a camber plate.
- Some sort of camber adjustment.
- Right. So like on my GTI, it came with
camber adjustment in the front and
you can adjust those with an Allen super easy.
But what people don't realize too is there is dampening on
it's adjustable so you can make it harder.
You can make it softer.
And it helps with the ride ability and everything.
- It is, in a sense, the same thing as your coil over
instead of a spring, it's just the airbag.
But you still have a shock,
like an oil shock.
- And then, too, what you can do,
like let's say you don't want to run 70 PSI in the front,
So it's a real stiff ride.
You can adjust the strut a little bit lower,
a little bit higher, get it dialed in.
So that way you can run what PSI you want
or if you're going for that fender to lip fitment
and you don't want it to air out and boom, you know,
smoke the lip of your wheel, you can dial it in.
So it just comes and then it stops fully aired out directly
on top of your wheel.
So there's a bunch of adjust abilities with these.
What's really nice too; insanely fricking durable.
People think you're going to pop these things.
You're not going to pop these things.
And if you ever did, I promise
we and Air Lift would take care of you
and make sure that it's taken care of.
because you're not going to--you'd have to stab it.
We'd maybe question you.
What the hell do you do?
Lay on it, jump it off or something?
- It rubbing against something or you literally stabbed it.
- I was going to say that's probably
the biggest failure is people don't account for
the bag being a little bit wider,
then their wheel comes in on the inside
and rubs against that.
That's gonna finally one day wear through this
and then pop it.
But for the most part,
I've been on Air for over three years, super reliable.
I haven't had any issues
and I just put it on my other car.
This is what's to expect again,
front will have your adjustable camber,
sometimes rear, like on a Focus ST that doesn't
independent rear suspension,
you'll just get like a rear control arm
and then a mount to kind of
hold just the bag itself.
My GTI was like that as well.
Yeah, that's about it.
- Well, I'm sure we can get the rest of this over
to him so they can finish up his install.
We can stop keeping them.
As I know, he's been itching to install this.
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