Nissan GTR Air-Lift Suspension Install

So this is actually something new to our channel, where we're actually showing you guys a customer's car. Because everything else has just been our project. But if you came to our last meet and greet thing, which we will be having another one this summer, if you came to the last meet and greet, you would have seen Kevin and his silver completely stock GTR, which now we're doing a little makeover. So just a quick rundown, he's got a converting the whole front end to a 2017 GTR front end. Carbon lip. He wrapped the entire car white. We didn't wrap it. Well, he didn't wrap it either, but it was wrapped white. We're doing a full airlift 3P system with their struts and everything like that. We're doing a carbon trunk, carbon side blades, well, I guess rocker panels, carbon little whatever these little diffuser things, center diffuser, some other small little carbon bits, a lot of carbon bits, little mirror caps, carbon fiber makeover. Yeah. And some new wheels. We're gonna try to fit this into one episode, but we'll see. It's a lot of stuff. But a lot of it's just kind of... What's the P stand for? Is it like a different... Pressure. So they have the 3P and the 3H. Actually, if you get the 3P, so it's only pressure based, you can just buy the height sensors, which are the only difference between that and the 3H. 3H is a little nicer, but like 200 bucks, you can buy the height sensors. Basically, it's measuring pressure of each bag. And then also the height, distance to the rock, I mean, the frame and the lower control arm. That's only really that helpful. Also, when you have a car where you're gonna have a lot of people in it, it's really gonna weigh it down a lot. And the pressures will change. Yeah, I don't think he's gonna have too many people in the backseat. Backseats of GTRs are just useless. But so what we're gonna do first, we've already cleared the front lip, but we're gonna start with the air install. So first thing is going to be mounting the tank, mounting this guy and running all the wiring. Wiring up the entire thing is probably gonna take somewhat the most... Running the wires and the actual airlines will take the most time. So we'll run all that stuff. I like to let it sit for a day with the compressor running. But since he's not driving, it doesn't really matter. But just to check and make sure you have no leaks. But then we'll go on to actually throwing the struts on. Let's get it. Oh, fresh air lift. Dang, they look good. What's up? So I'm actually going to mount this guy first. This is the actual manifold. There's a bunch of different ports on this thing. I don't know if you can see them. But this is where the air goes into this manifold. And then this is where it decides to send the air to the front left strut, front right, rear left, rear right. And then this port right here is the exhaust. So when you're actually dumping air out of any of these, it just runs out this way. So it's just got two threaded mounts right here. I actually just drilled the holes to mount this thing. And you have to mount this higher than your tank. You should because the air that's going into your tank right here. If it's if this is lower than your tank, if any condensation gets in your tank, you have any water, the water will run into here and kind of mess with this stuff. So you'll get a bunch of warnings and stuff like that on your controller. But so we're gonna mount this guy first, then we'll mount the tank. And then we'll run the line from here to the tank. And then we'll start running the lines to the whole electrical things. I feel like you know, like scuba divers on the edge, they're just sitting there like, Jesus, I wasn't ready for that. Well, at least you know, you get thrown in the back of the trunk and one of these would be kind of comfortable. Yeah, it's not that bad, actually. Teamwork makes the dream work. Step number two, mount your air tank. So on your air tank, you're only going to really need depends on how you do it. But the easiest way is just three fittings. One is going to be air in from the compressor. The other one is going to be air out of the tank to that manifold. And then always at the bottom has to be at the bottom of your, your tank is going to be the drain. Drain is going to run to somewhere else and you have to run a power switch to it or you can do a manual drain. I marked out where I wanted the air tank and I drilled some holes and ran some rib nuts in them. So this thing's ready to mount. But actually first I have to run the carpet, set the carpet down on top, mark your holes where that needs to go. Yeah. Or less where it's going to be. So she's in there. There's a little bit of like foam on the bottom of the carpet. So that's as tight as I can get it before the carpet starts looking crazy. So now I'm going to run the line from the tank from the compressor. It's not the tank or the compressor. This is the manifold from the manifold to the tank. Confusing myself. This is a whole like a PTC system or like push to connect system. So you literally have as long as your airlines cut straight, push this in one of the fittings. This little guy, you line it up, you line it up flat, straight with this. Make sure it's straight. If it's angled, it'll be a weird cut and it won't seal correctly. Flat cut like that. And there you go. That's all you do. There you go. That's one line done. That's the easiest line, but it's one line done. Okay, so under here, this is the manifold. First line right here is the exhaust. So when all the air comes out of the system, this line is ran to the passenger side. The next one in here is for the to fill from the tank to here. That's this line right here. It comes out this little port on that side. And then number three is for the right rear air bag. Obviously, that's running to the right side also because it's the easiest way to get to this right rear strut. Next one is left rear. Next one is left rear right here. That guy's running to the left side, obviously for the same reason. Right front, right rear. So there's three lines running this way and actually two lines right here running this way. And then the third is this line right here and that'll be from the compressor feeding the tank. So air come from the compressor, I'm going to mount the compressor right here in the center underneath. I like to mount them outside because they make a little bit of noise. And when it's in your trunk, it's kind of annoying. It's out by your exhaust, you'll never hear it if your car's on. But alright, so we're gonna get to jacking it up. It's really annoying to jack this car up. And that's right now. But actually, I think once we have the these struts on, depending on where you set the bag, but you can actually get like half an inch higher than stop when you air all the way up. Okay, so we're gonna start by unbolting the brake line. And then we got to take off a little, I guess it's probably the ABS wheel speed sensor, which that was easy. And then we have one bolt on the bottom. All right, that's everything that we need down here. Two bolts. Pretty easy so far. All right, so this is actually an electronic damper. So I have to figure out where this little Okay, so this is actually the power and ground from the it's got like a dynamic never adjusting shock factory. So there's a little sensor and it can change the dampening basically. And actually pulled the fuse already for the electronic suspension. And that's where I'm running the start signal wire for the rise on start command for the air lift system. Okay, so let me catch you up. We swapped out the bolt struts in the rear for the air struts. These guys are actually not very hard to take out from in here. But the three bolts at the top are a nightmare. Because you have to literally take out the entire rear interior to get up in there. All right, so both fronts are together. The next step is I like to run the airlines right away just so I can kind of get that I know the fronts done done. So what I can do is use a like oversized hose clamp kind of guy like one of the states. And there's usually some type of inner frame rail section that you can kind of attach this to. But what you want to do is make sure that this braided line that goes to the bottom of the bag here, make sure that this doesn't snag on anything, having this be such a bigger diameter than this line, which is maybe like three, maybe like three eights. So there's a ton of room for this to like, sit around in here. So it's not going to get snagged. But as you turn the vehicle, you want to make sure that this can move back and forth, it'll actually move a little bit. And in the end here, there's just a regular like push to connect style fitting. So this will connect to all of our other airlines, which I'll actually attach with smaller nylon versions of these guys that actually will hold that snug to there, but make sure there's enough slack. So I can have somebody jump in the driver's seat, start it, turn it back and forth and make sure that I have enough slack to go back and forth, not snag anything. So what I've done so far is we took off the bumper to get to this little bit. Like I was saying on the inside, so I drilled three holes to hold these bulkhead fittings. What you do is you unscrew one of these guys, and then drop it through. And then it's got a push to connect guy on both sides. So that way the airline won't bind. So from the inside, that's what it looks like. And then from the outside, I just gotta screw these guys on there and tighten them up. Tightening them up is probably gonna be the trickiest part, but it's also hard to do with one hand, but you get the idea. And just like that, all the lines are ran. And all the lines are here ran. This one's purposely left open because that's actually the exhaust. So when it deflates any of these guys, it's gonna blow air out of that guy. It doesn't really matter where I put that, I can just make air outside. Not a big deal. Got that compressor chillin' right there. So he got some new wheels. I'm not really sure, I think they're like Ferrada or something. Yeah, they're cool. And I'm gonna test fit them real quick. See if I have to raise or lower the actual suspension because these are actually just like coilovers where the bag is like the spring and this purse, you can spin it down if you want. But you do have to undo your line because otherwise your line will just wrap around this. Oh my goodness. This is my niece, everybody. Hi. Hi, AJ. Is today your birthday? How old are you now? What? Three years old? Whoa, girl. You want to help me work on this? This car is GTR. We gotta put these wheels on it. Yeah, new wheels. Look, they're nice and shiny. Yeah. Yeah, they're very big, especially compared to you. All right, so the air suspension is all installed. All good to go. Before I go ahead and set ride height and all that good stuff, I'm gonna go ahead and we already threw one of the carbon fiber rockers on. Well, Greg threw a set on a while ago. So I gotta throw the one on the other side, throw his bumper back on, throw the trunk back on. Got a new hood. And we got the new 2017 front bumper with a carbon fiber lip I've already installed also. So all right, well, it's gonna go ahead and jump in a time lapse world and throw this stuff on.