Racing Air Suspension & Components

Air suspensions are commonly associated with luxury cars and commercial vehicles carrying hefty loads. However, this setup has been around in motorsports since the early days of stock car racing. Its major feature – on-the-fly adjustability – is a valuable performance advantage, and it also makes a daily-driver race car easier to live with while cruising. At the touch of a button, you can slam your car down for precise handling and low-stance looks and raise it for comfortable driving and going over road irregularities. This setup is the right option for those who want the best of two worlds.

The racing air suspension is not all about lowering your car by a few inches. It’s all about getting the most performance benefits out of slamming. Contrary to the popular belief, the air bag setup won’t cause a marshmallow-cushy ride. In reality, the track-oriented system brings better cornering stability with less body roll, optimized steering angles, more stable braking, and overall faster lap times. There are different damping modes which change the ride from comfortable to quite firm for sharper handling. You can pressurize each corner individually, change the spring rate, move the lower mount up and down thanks to threaded design – the pneumatic system gives you a wide range of adjustability options.

Air springs replace the conventional steel springs, but there is complicated, precise engineering which stands behind this conversion. The system uses an on-board compressor and a variety of sensors and electronic controls that adapt to changing conditions automatically or allow you to adjust handling when you need it. Modern air shocks have zillion-way-adjustable internal shock designs for you to fine tune the setup, whether it’s ride quality or roll control needed right at the moment. Many systems feature adjustable camber plates to optimize chassis geometry.