Kw Launches Hls Evo Hydraulic Lift System Kits

5 days ago

Many ace sports cars and capacity vehicles travel equipped pinch mill assistance systems to summation crushed clearance astatine nan touch of a button, which is useful for negotiating velocity bumps and different roadworthy protrusions. Automotive suspension institution KW is now expanding its portfolio pinch a caller procreation of retrofit hydraulic assistance systems.

The caller KW Hydraulic Lift System (HLS) Evolution strategy is disposable for nan beforehand axle aliases arsenic a complete front-and-rear solution. It allows nan conveyance to beryllium raised while driving astatine speeds of up to 80 km/h, making obstacles specified arsenic steep driveways, parking car shed ramps, and velocity bumps easier to navigate. Once nan obstacle is cleared and nan conveyance accelerates again, nan strategy automatically lowers nan conveyance astatine astir 65 km/h.

The retrofit kits are offered arsenic nan HLS 2 kit for nan beforehand axle and nan HLS 4 kit for some axles. Each kit includes a compact, maintenance‑free radial piston pump, assistance cylinders, hydraulic lines, physics power unit, mounting hardware, and vehicle‑specific springs. The compact and lightweight HLS is disposable for selected vehicles arsenic some a retrofit solution for OE suspension and successful operation pinch KW coilover kits.

“The caller HLS Evo kit uses a much compact and lighter pump,” explained KW merchandise manager, Sascha Daucher. “We achieved a weight simplification of complete 50%, and depending connected nan hydraulic reservoir, nan hydraulic module weighs conscionable 1.66 to 2.13 kg. We person besides importantly reduced powerfulness depletion and existent draw.”

The strategy uses caller solenoid valves, and each nan hydraulic lines person been replaced pinch Kevlar-reinforced hoses equipped pinch quick-release connectors.

A compact solution

KW says that, compared pinch air‑spring‑based assistance systems, nan HLS requires considerably little installation abstraction and tin beryllium integrated discreetly into nan vehicle. “The hydraulic module pinch reservoir is smaller than nan starter artillery of a emblematic compact car,” added Daucher.

The KW springs included pinch nan HLS Evolution are engineered pinch vehicle‑specific outpouring rates truthful that, whether they are extended aliases retracted, neither thrust comfortableness nor driving dynamics are affected. The assistance cylinders raise nan beforehand extremity by up to 45 mm wrong 4 seconds. When each 4 dampers are equipped pinch assistance cylinders, nan full conveyance tin beryllium lifted astatine some axles successful astir six to 8 seconds.