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shiryu0

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heres a pic of my LSC with the 1.5" drop coil conversion kit :cool: ....my RF started leaking, front was slammed decided to convert to coils.....use the curb as a guide ;) , i should have brought out a soda can to use it as a guide, hehe......took one pic today, it was getting late, more tomorrow :)

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Looks good, I would consider doing the conversion if the front just sat a tad bit lower. How does it ride vs. the air?
 
Do you know if they make a lowered kit that puts the front lower than the back? About 1" or so?
 
Of course the ride is better, your air ride system was broken and slammed prior.
Leaf springs would provide a better ride than a pancaked air ride system.
 
bullsh!t, when I replaced them, they only deflated on the front after sitting for a couple of days and the back was fine, I bought my car in 1999 it only had 40,000 miles on it and the air-ride worked fine but rode like sh!t from day one. you need to watch what you say before you put your foot in your mouth dude. :mad:
 
JC1994 said:
bullsh!t, when I replaced them, they only deflated on the front after sitting for a couple of days and the back was fine, I bought my car in 1999 it only had 40,000 miles on it and the air-ride worked fine but rode like sh!t from day one. you need to watch what you say before you put your foot in your mouth dude. :mad:
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You've failed to contradict anything I said, so explain how my "foot is in my mouth."
 
You implied he was a dipsh!t because he had a slammed air ride and said it rides better. When in fact, he didnt have a slammed air ride, it was just leaking.

So he commented back implying your a douche and that you my friend made an absolute retarded comment without knowing the circumstances at hand.

:lol: How is that hard to see?
 
my RF started leaking, front was slammed decided to convert to coils.
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This was the comment made in the first post. Granted, JC didn't make it. I wasn't speaking specifically to JC. I attributed his comment to the original poster. Repeatedly, people post that they switch to coil conversion and the ride is "better" than air ride.

Sure it is, you had a broken air ride and now you have a rebuilt suspension. But a new air ride system is clearly a more comfortable ride than a coil spring set up. Or is a Thunderbird equally as comfortable as a Mark VIII? A T-bird is comfortable, no doubt, but not AS comfortable.

It's pretty simple. Or did Lincoln install an elaborate and expensive luxury suspension on these cars when the same thing could have been accomplished just as well with a coil spring?
 
shiryu0 said:
heres a pic of my LSC with the 1.5" drop coil conversion kit :cool: ....my RF started leaking, front was slammed decided to convert to coils.....use the curb as a guide ;) , i should have brought out a soda can to use it as a guide, hehe......took one pic today, it was getting late, more tomorrow :)
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I got about a 1 1/4 drop on you.
 
Calabrio said:
This was the comment made in the first post. Granted, JC didn't make it. I wasn't speaking specifically to JC. I attributed his comment to the original poster. Repeatedly, people post that they switch to coil conversion and the ride is "better" than air ride.

Sure it is, you had a broken air ride and now you have a rebuilt suspension. But a new air ride system is clearly a more comfortable ride than a coil spring set up. Or is a Thunderbird equally as comfortable as a Mark VIII? A T-bird is comfortable, no doubt, but not AS comfortable.

It's pretty simple. Or did Lincoln install an elaborate and expensive luxury suspension on these cars when the same thing could have been accomplished just as well with a coil spring?
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I apologize for the remark :) I thought you were talking to me. I also liked my air ride on the highway but not in town it was way too harsh. but all in all I say it still rides better now and handles better too. I am used to cars with coil springs under them. it handles much more predictably.
 
LuxurySportCoupe said:
Eff Air suspension. Nice car dude. You should tint your windows...it would compliment the color quite well.
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Thanks man!! window tint is on the way too!! I can't wait. I don't know why I have waited so long to do it.... guess I was too busy with other mods. :D
 
Looks good mine is way lower though for some reason I used to strutmasters kit and I love it my front sits on top of the tire and the back covers the tire a little bit because of the 200 pounds of stereo :q:q:q:q in the trunk
 
I got the strutmasters kit too, those pics are about 4 months old. it has settled another .5 inches in the front. it took a good 1000 to 1500 miles for them to fully settle.
 
I don't know why so many people have a problem with the air suspension in the city. We have some of the roughest roads here, and man is the air suspension so much more forgivable than a spring setup.

Of course, I replaced my suspension with all new OEM Ford parts, with Eddie's compressor and spider valve, so my suspension is in top shape.

A Gen1 owner who had ride problems with their air suspension might want to consider that they may have had problems with their electronic shocks, rather. ;)
 
I don't know what it was but it rode like a lumber wagon in town, so hard that it broke one of my rear shock mounts. on the highway it was fine. even my 80 year old dad thought it rode rough in town. he has 2 Caddy's a 95 and a 96 sedan deville. now he thinks and I do too, that it rides better than his Caddy's, and they both are cherry cars with low miles. :D
 
JC1994 said:
I don't know what it was but it rode like a lumber wagon in town, so hard that it broke one of my rear shock mounts. on the highway it was fine. even my 80 year old dad thought it rode rough in town. he has 2 Caddy's a 95 and a 96 sedan deville. now he thinks and I do too, that it rides better than his Caddy's, and they both are cherry cars with low miles. :D
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I remember test driving some Mark VIIIs before I bought mine, years ago, that rode like buckboards too. It was bad enough I almost completely lost interest in buying a Mark.... but then I found a few more.
 
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