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Need some help picking new bags

Air Ride Suspensions Q & A
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tacolayingbody   +1y
for a mini truck I would run slam fronts and coni's in the rear slams are to stiff for a mini in the rear. As far as the front bag placment has alot to do with lift vs air presure. Front suspension works like a mini cantaliver. The closer the bag is to the frame(or farther away from the spindle) you will get more lift. As far as slam bags go they get quite a bit more lift.
slammeddime   +1y
Edited: 12/9/2006 3:03:01 PM by AirRideTalk dot com

Depending on the truck you have, you may already be maxing out the front suspension, so it doesn't matter what bag you upgrade to, you won't get any more lift. You can easily tell by simply filling the front as high as it will go, then stick a jack under there and start lifting. If the frame starts going up and the tire stays on the ground, bigger bags would help. If the tire starts rising as the frame does, bigger bags will do nothing except give a lower ride height pressure. If you don't already have shocks, get some, as it will help your ride quality.

Now, something to consider, if you upgrade to a larger wheel, your bag will compress more than it does now when you lay out, so to get to the same ride height, will take less pressure than it does now, and it will ride better as well.

Don't jump the gun and spend more cash than you need to. Wait until you actually get a larger tire/wheel combo before deciding that you need different bags.... unless you just have cash burning a hole in your pocket.

edit: As for info on bags, take a look at the specifications page on my site in my signature... lots and lots of info there.
bagged89S10   +1y
check out my site. I got slams and stones.
BioMax   +1y
If this is for the Mazda, the bags you have should work fine. There is probably something else set-up wrong, like Matt said a bigger bag isn't always the problem.

ALL bags work off of the same principal... volume. Pressure is only a by-product of voulume. If it takes (x) volume of air to lift the vehicle, then you need to "shoe-horn" that volume into your (y) sized bag. The smaller the bag, the higher the pressure and vise-versa.

Every Mazda that I have ever bagged took about 120 psi to lock up the front end with a Firestone 255c bag.

If you can, post some pics of your set-up, we'll see if we can help.