Brandon's 2012 ISM STI Build GR Sedan by evans609

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Ok little update and hopefully huge update this weekend but first;

Finally found some nuts for the Oil Pressure Gauge. So I will bolt the contacts down and use lock tight this time lol



Here trying to get a ruff estimate on where the trunk and compressor will mount too.



Here you can see we cut holes in the side liner for a cleaner look



here is where the relay mounted too.





and thats about all for today. This weekend we should have the trunk in, tank and compressor mounted, struts in and hooked up and set ride height and finish tune and thats all until wheels and fenders show up lol

5-5-2016

Ok so here the update from this past weekend. I have everything installed but through the confusion and excitment I realized I dont have the right management system for the suspension. I was suppose to be running the V2 Management system but I have the manual lol oh my hah but thank fully Air Lift is amazing as a they took care of me a,d offered to upgrade me from the V2 to the 3P management system so that is already on the way and hopefully next weekend ill have that in but I will show how I installed the manual one for ****s and gigs.

So first, just a look at the rear struts installed and everything hooked up.

Its a pretty straight forward install. But the only issue I have is it seems the rear passenger is banging a lot. I thought first my hardwood trunk was making the banging sound but I do believe it might be something in the strut assembly so I will look into later this weekend when Im off again.

Pics of the front installed.

The install instructions seemed to be of very good quality. The hardest part of the install was running the lines.

So heres where we drilled a hole and threaded a hole for the hose connection that runs down to the front bags. Did the same thing on both sides.

Heres what it looks like with the connection installed on the drivers side.



and then the passenger side. with a close up



and this one shows where we ran the hose for the passenger side bag.



This is the passenger side rear



and the driver side rear





The the trumk was put in place and ran the wires. Ended up cutting a hole just to the left of the compressor for the wiring. Now the only issue I had with this was the red and black wire that ran to the relay it seems to not make a good connection so might take the relay out and adjust the connections.



Just showing how we bolted them down.





I ended up using self tapping screw with a nice clean cap to keep the wood down. I drilled into the metal frame that would support your spare tire and the hard styro foam that covers it.

Next we ran the lines for the gauges which wont be used in the new setup and also the switches. So here is where we labelled where the lines came from.





So these are the supplied Ts that came with the kit. Very nice connections.



and here is where we ran the lines in the driver side, just above the peddles. Tie wrapped them up after for a cleaner look.



and then this was the passenger side connections.

This is where we wired in the gauges. It was only for the light inside the gauge.



This is with all the lines ran to the a pillar. I labelled the lines with coloured tie wraps.





Gauges installed

and here was the connections for the switches



and the only other thing was when we started back at the tune my pressure was down so I adjusted the fuel pressure and down some more logs.



also got the gauge re-mounted

So I got some pics of the recent setup but its only ****ty cell ones due to the battery on my DSLR isnt working lol