I'm looking into going air, but trying to do it on a budget. I don't think I'd be playing with it much, mostly wanting it for the adjustability. Gauge has a 2-way manual setup for what looks like a good price. I know it would be slow (1/4" lines, 33% compressor, 2 gal tank), but would it be reliable and a good "starter" setup? I'd probably run struts and bags from EZ Baked. Any other recommendations for a 2-way setup? I've seen it mentioned on here, but nothing in detail. Thanks guys.

 

By 2 way do you mean a recirculating system, to allow the air from the bags back to the tank ? the main reason that I never thought of something along those lines was because it just seemed (from my pondering) that the air would not flow back to the tank.

Or are you talking about just setting up a front/rear separate controls and just running 4 valves instead of 8? I only ever ran 4 valves, 2 for the front and 2 for the back (one fills/one dumps) and it was just fine...

 

4 valves instead of 8, I don't really need indepependent corners and it looks like that kind of setup could be cheaper to do.

 

Again, ran that myself, def didnt have any issues with it, although I did take some ribbing from some minitrucker friends of mine because I couldnt hit sides

 

Some day, I'd like to go for air, and a simple setup like that would be exactly what I want. Thankfully, I don't know any minitruckers, so at least I could avoid taking hell for that.

But really, for a car that you would actually drive every day, I can't imagine needing anything more elaborate than ride height adjustment (having front & rear independent would be handy, but that's about it).

 

Exactly. I want to be able to go "oh crap, steep driveway" and up I go. Now, if I would of had air on my S-10 in high school, I would have been dancing all over the place.

 

If I kept my GMC Slownoma (more expensive, yet not actually different S10 clone) longer (it got to be more expensive to fix the last year I had it than I paid in Subaru Impreza lease payments the following year), I'd have ended up with air on that -- being a truck with suspension components designed in 1962, air is super cheap.