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My uca's are keeping me from upgrading my suspension.

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Old 07-28-2009, 01:47 PM
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Default My uca's are keeping me from upgrading my suspension.

I have a host of suspension mods to do (in sig) including uca's that i ordered but instead of getting these


I got these:


Returning those, they then sent me these today:


I am so ready to make my stang handle better but it looks like I am going to have to wait a little longer. Okay /rant.

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Old 07-28-2009, 02:02 PM
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Sorry to hear this, but glad to see you stick to your guns and get the better ones. I would venture to say that a high percentage of pepes would say "Darn, oh well, I will just put these in and they will be fine". The truth you already know is, they WON'T be fine. They would work, but not NEARLY as well as the ones in your top picture.

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Old 07-28-2009, 02:20 PM
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Sorry to hear this, but glad to see you stick to your guns and get the better ones. I would venture to say that a high percentage of pepes would say "Darn, oh well, I will just put these in and they will be fine". The truth you already know is, they WON'T be fine. They would work, but not NEARLY as well as the ones in your top picture.

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Yeah, the funny thing is the same exact thing happened with my LCA,s. I'm waiting on a email from the seller, hopefully it all works out and my car gets upgraded before the cold comes to chicago.
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Old 07-28-2009, 02:53 PM
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ha, to make you feel a little better, i have the suspension components...got the right ones the first try, but they are in a box in my garage because i havent had any time to put them in yet, it has been like two months!
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Old 07-28-2009, 03:20 PM
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3rd tries a charm! youll be happy with the final outcome. who brand? upr?
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Old 07-28-2009, 03:42 PM
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^ doesn't look like UPR as these are not gusseted.

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Old 07-28-2009, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by devongarver
ha, to make you feel a little better, i have the suspension components...got the right ones the first try, but they are in a box in my garage because i havent had any time to put them in yet, it has been like two months!
Well, I can do you 1 better, my roush springs and CC plates have been in the garage for more than a year actually close to 2 years. lol I bought them early January 2008 but I didn't put them in because I wanted to do all of the suspension in at the same time. Yeah the arms are UPR, at least thats what they said, and that's what I paid for, what do u mean by not gusseted?
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NVM, I noticed that the pic up top is the old uca before they added the gusset. The ones they shipped have the gusset. I thought there was something else wrong with the arms, you scared me. lol
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^ I bet they added the gussets after some time to beef them up a bit. I figure they probably had a couple failures and wanted to keep up a good reputation and stay ahead of the curve, so to speak.

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i am very happy with my BMR adj. uppers and lowers (spherical all around) i did pay out my azz ~$800 but they are beefy as a ****, those look like twigs


they got it right the first time lol......
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