Air Ride On Lincoln Mark VIII

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OK, i have so many questions i have no clue where to start, so i' m going to start with my most important. I have air struts in the front and air bags in the back of a 96 Lincoln Mark VIII. I have 450psi dumps and half inch lines throughout the whole system. My original problem when installing the bags was we couldn' t set the valves near the front struts so we had to put them in the rear with the compressor and the tank. The space in the front of my lincoln is so compact i really can' t put them up front near the air struts. My question is, by having my valves/dumps in the trunk that actually goto my front end making me loose alot of power and speed. I mean it moves ok now, but my front end is really heavy so i have to wait about 5 to 7 minutes when my tank is completely empty to build up to 150psi. Will it most likely use less psi to lift my front end if my actual dumps were right there? Second question is how do i upgrade my tank or does it have to be upgraded. I have a 7 gallon tank with 1 100% full duty compressor, builts up to about 225 pounds of pressure. I' m not really really familiar with all this, but the regulator is what regulates the air into the air tank i believe. Now i want my actual tank to build up to say 4 or 500 pounds of pressure, considering i have half inch lines and 450psi compitition valves/dumps i should not have a problem pushing that many psi or something around it. What would i have to upgrade or research to understand what it is i need to accomplish this? I" m not in any way not happy with my current setup is, i' ve went to alot of places and really haven' t seen that many peoples bags move as fast as mine. I surprise alot of people because of the speed, but i think the original setup years back can be made better, because it was very hard to do the fabrication for the install in the first place. I upgraded to larger valves a year later, because 150psi was just to slow for my heavy front end. I' m curious to hear feedback, its been awhile since i looked around at some of the newer things to do with air ride suspensions. Thank you
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[darren@ridetech.com]

The size of your valves will not affect the amount of pressure required to lift the vehicle. I doubt you pump will build that much pressure. I' d don' t know of any the build over 200 psi.

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Yes i understand that, but the size of the valves effects the speed. I was just really trying to get a professional explanation on how the valves being positioned would effect the speed or power of the air.
About the building up over 200psi, that is my problem also, finding such a compressor and setup that will build 400psi, anywhere else you suggest i look?

[darren@ridetech.com]

Well the closer the valve is to the air spring the faster it will be since there is that much less air line to fill. It' s pretty minimal though. Not hardly worth the extra time in plumbing and wiring.