UPR employees testing at the track

[Sharad]

UPR Products is a small, family owned business. There are only six of us in the office, but we all own Mustangs and we all have a passion for selling great parts at affordable prices. This past weekend Sharad was testing UPR Pro Street Suspension with TrackGuys.com at Sebring International Raceway and Bill was testing UPR Pro Series Suspension at Palm Beach International Raceway. UPR is more than a job for us. It is our passion, and we love sharing it with everyone!
Sebring photo by REVan Media

 

[mitch]

Nice!!
Your car looks very flat in that turn!
and LOVE the orange car, was fun watching the build progress on local forums.

 

[Sharad]

Nice!!
Your car looks very flat in that turn!
and LOVE the orange car, was fun watching the build progress on local forums.

Thanks the Air Lift dampers and Eibach bars kept the car from body rolling too violently in the transitions. I think this was going into 3-4-5. I liked how I could hit that section aggressively in 3rd gear (with over 700rwhp) and the car didn't get squirrelly.

If anything, I'd say that the UPR Pro Street / Air Lift suspension setup made the car very predictable and controllable. I think I was rolling around 120 through the gurney bend past that first bridge with the flag stand at 6. (estimated because my speedo is off) Dude, WOT in 5th, off-camber surface, and even when the back tires would spin, it was still very controllable. It was NOT that way with last year's setup!

 

[TGR96]

So the S197 in the pic above is on Air Lift? Wow, and I thought Air Lift was just for the stanced crowd! LOL

 

[Sharad]

So the S197 in the pic above is on Air Lift? Wow, and I thought Air Lift was just for the stanced crowd! LOL

Yessir. The Stealth Fighter is on an Air Lift Performance system. The dampers are 30-way adjustable shocks & struts which work very well. For reference, last year I did the TrackGuys.com Sebring Sensation HPDE on Koni Yellows & Eibach springs. This year I upgraded to the Air Lift Performance kit with no other suspension changes. (UPR Pro Street suspension with Eibach swaybars, FWIW) Sebring is an old racetrack with some pretty rough sections of the surface. In particular, turn 17 is like a minefield!

Comparing last year on Koni/Eibach to this year on Air Lift Performance, the car was stiffer through the rough stuff (and you could feel the difference!) but it never upset the balance of the car. It was very smooth and predictable, even with over 700rwhp on Nitto INVOs.

Probably my favorite part of the HPDE was when I ran some laps behind a C7Z06. Those cars are totally droolworthy, and word on the street is that their suspension technology is out of this world! No matter- I didn't have any trouble hanging with the C7Z around Sebring. I hope to God we got that footage on the GoPros, but I haven't seen it yet. *fingers crossed*

I'm very happy with the Air Lift kit. It's soooooo adjustable that it's easy to make it corner well on an open track, ride comfortably on the street, or launch hard at the drag strip. The wide range of adjustability is nice!

 

[TGR96]

Stop trying to spend my money for me!!!

 

[UltraKla$$ic]

Stop trying to spend my money for me!!!

THIS!!!