Fabricating hanging air suspension management setup

Did some more work tonight and dremeled out plastic panels to clear the bar I am using to mount the Tank etc.

Here is the factory threaded hole That was not being used that I mounted the bar to. There was one on each side and perfect height to where i needed it to be. Its like Lexus knew I needed this to be here =)



Rough cuts. 








Filing it down to make it look clean.




Back on the car for test fit.






Tomorrow I will drop some felt tape where the blue tape is so that it will not be metal on metal and will not get scratched from the bar mounting when everything is finalized.

Check out the cool "brace bar" haha. fits around factory plastic panels

Moving right along

some more progress

finished routing the wires for the Air setup
Made quick disconnects plugs for both compressors



wires on quarter panel routed. power Distribution block and relay mounted here as well.



heading to the other side



Tapped Parking lights
and Ignition on the other side, Ignition is to a Fuel Pump Control Module actually, a bit scary to grab it here and possibly short something out and cause vehicles fuse to pop and stall the vehicle but i will fuse small here right after i tap into wire so nothing bad will happen. This way I am not having to run any wires to the Dash besides the Controller. I ended up running the Ignition to the Cigarette Lighter, so I recommend you do the same if you are using what i've written as a guide.





Dropped the Tank back down
to get it ready to send to powdercoating

Here is the third mounting point

I will Nutsert it






Carpet back in place and now all ready for the tank to be powdercoated and back.



the Third Center Bracket I made



Picked up BeatSonic Navi bypass through Groupbuy also next to it, Power Magic I've been sitting on for a bit for my DVR camera



Up next while I wait for the Powder Coating will be probably to prewire the Amplifier Subwoofer setup since it is all apart anyway and wires are visable so later all I will need to do is fabricate Box and amp mount.

New Trunk spoiler

test fitting new spoiler that arrived today. not bad =)

Alpine Amplifier and Sub-woofer achieved

Moving on, the trunk is still a mess and probably at least another 2-3 mounts but parts keep stacking up for other projects.

Now onto the funner Mods

Now to the fun Mods


That is a Greddy Intake in the box.


Airrex Suspension and Accuair Air Management is the direction the rest this build will go towards. I did not take photo of the Accuair boxes because there is nothing to see but white boxes. 
This thread will be heavily photo geared as I will be doing the installation myself and will be documenting the process as I go. This will be a slow process as I work 6 days a week and I will work on it here and there. This is my first attempt at Air suspension as well but I have no doubt this will come out exactly how I envisioned with my technical experience and knowledge in the Car Audio field. So here comes the fun fabricating and running of wires.

Bought a Circuit Breaker to power the compressors etc, Will run 4 gauge wire, which is overkill for Air suspension but I will likely run a Amplifier Sub woofer setup in the near future as well, so this will take care of both in one wire run.
Here is some photos of the bracket I made to hold the Circuit Breaker.

Started off as this.


Did some measuring, cutting and bending and ended up with this.


Put some paint on it.


Before

After




Wire now in the trunk

Distribution Block mounted


its amazing the attention they put into this Mark Levinson Amp. The finish on it is so nice but it is hidden away.


So now to figure out how to mount the air tank etc.
I did not want to do like every other simple setup I have seen out there where people just mount everything onto the floor with exo mounts. I wanted to keep my nice Lexus trunkmat intact and usable. So here we have it. Floating tank behind the rear seat.
Seats are still able to go back up.



Quick test to see if it can hang with the extra weight of two compressors. (does not feel safe, so that night I stopped right there.



I have resolved the unbalanced weight with another third mounting point by making another bracket from the top of the tank brackets and now all is secure. Seems like I was so into getting it done that I did not get a photo of the process of making this bracket. Strange.


Here we continue on with figuring out which way all wires will be ran and tailored. Hot mess 





I will be sending the brackets and the tank to get them powder coated soon and order some more wire management items before I can continue on.