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Ridetech Front TQ Shockwaves Bel Air with StrongArms 1955-1957
$2155.00

RideTech TQ Series ShockWaves for 1955-1957 Bel Air

Upgrade your classic 1955-1957 Chevy Bel Air with the RideTech TQ Series ShockWaves, designed specifically for use with RideTech lower arms. These innovative shock absorbers provide a seamless blend of ride quality and handling, thanks to their adjustable air ride stance. With a straightforward installation similar to CoilOvers, you can enjoy superior performance on the road or at the show.

Key Features

  • Triple Adjustable Design: Customize your ride with single rebound adjustment and dual compression adjustments (high and low speed).
  • Remote Mount Reservoirs: Ensures consistent fluid temperatures and easy access to tuning knobs for quick adjustments.
  • Durable Construction: Built with a monotube design featuring large 1.834-inch pistons and heavy-duty 5/8-inch shafts, ensuring longevity and reliability.
  • Proven Performance: Backed by RideTech's exclusive 1,000,001-mile warranty, you can trust these ShockWaves to perform.

Specifications

  • Model: 11013011
  • Compatibility: 1955-1957 Chevy Bel Air, 210, and 150
  • Installation Requirements: Must be used with RideTech StrongArms and an air compressor/control system.

Customer Insights

Users have praised the TQ Series ShockWaves for their ability to fine-tune suspension settings to match individual driving styles, enhancing both everyday driving and spirited performance. The ease of adjusting ride height on-the-fly has made these shocks a favorite among classic car enthusiasts who appreciate both form and function.

Why Choose RideTech?

With over 20 years of experience in air ride development, RideTech understands the unique needs of muscle car suspensions. The TQ Series ShockWaves deliver predictable handling that rivals traditional CoilOvers while offering the flexibility of instant ride height adjustment, making them an ideal choice for your Tri-Five Bel Air.

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About RideTech

Ridetech manufactures exciting suspension systems that improve the handling and ride quality of your muscle car, truck, Corvette, or hot rod. From restorations and show cars, to high-speed autocross and track day cars, Ridetech offers a wide range of premium products including air suspension systems (air ride), coil-overs, shock absorbers, coil, and leaf springs, tubular control arms, roll bars, sway bars and much more.

Being a Hot Rodder is more than parts and problem solving, if you are one too, then you already know what we mean. It is a lifestyle and a passion, and it is built on sharing with friends. Being a Hot Rodder means you never enter any town as a stranger, you always have fellow enthusiast to sit down with and feel at home. This is why we spend so much of our time and resources on attending events, we want to meet you and hear about your story – even if you aren’t a customer, even if you buy someone else’s product… 

Our approach to problem-solving, “can-do” perspective and relationship-driven business tactics have provided openings into many areas of business including agriculture, commercial transport, and defense projects as well… but at the core, we remain true to who we are – we are Hot Rodders.

Technology

RideTech greatly improves the ride quality and handling performance of your late model muscle car. Choose coil-over suspension, air suspension or monotube shock absorber upgrades. RideTech’s engineering team starts from the ground up with impact forged aluminum shock absorbers bodies that are vastly superior, with respect to quality, to anything offered from the factory. As such, RideTech offers an unbeatable 1,000,001 mile warranty. Like high-end exotics and race cars, RideTech shocks are monotubes. The design provides precision rebound and compression control as well as enhanced reliability. 

Coil-overs are popular upgrades for Mustangs Camaros and LX muscle. A Coilover is simply a shock surrounded by a coil spring; it places the shock and coil in one linear unit. A Coilover is a simple solution for most suspension designs, but can often be difficult to understand what you need. Fortunately, RideTech has your back with 21 years of suspension development.

Choosing a coil-over begins with two important decisions. The first is choosing the function of your vehicle. If you are building a performance car, then you will want a coil-over that has an adjustable shock. This allows the driver to tweak the “stiffness” of the suspension with a twist of a knob located on the shock. This adjustment knob controls the shock valving which controls the damping of the coil-over. This is a huge benefit for drivers who want to fine-tune their performance for the track, autocross, or the road. 

The second most important decision in choosing a coil-over is finding your desired spring rate for the coil spring. Spring rate is the force required to compress a spring 1″ and is an important factor in how comfortable your car rides and your ride height. RideTech has worked out ideal spring rates for your vehicle and intended driving style.

Product Line

RideTech offers a wide range of products for street rods and one-off custom cars with fabricated chassis including coil-over suspension, air suspension, and shocks. The world's greatest custom car builders choose RideTech suspension for exceptional handling and ride quality.

Complete Air Suspension, Coil-over Kits, and Conventional Streetgrip Suspension System for your classic muscle car and cruiser. 

RideTech offers high-performance suspension components for all generations of Corvettes including coil-over conversions, shock upgrades, sway bars, and even MagneTuner, a plug N play controller for Magneride-equipped C7 Corvettes. A RideTech exclusive, our Track1 line of ultra-high-performance suspension components for C2/C3 Corvettes are proven race winners. The Track 1 line includes extreme duty IRS components as well as upgraded spindles with C7 Corvette bearing packs. Everything is designed to work with stock Corvette frames.

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