Suspension Upgrades for the Sport Compacts Bangor ME

By Gary Goms
3/5/2009

Unfortunately, too many hot-rod sport compacts don't have enough suspension upgrades to handle their muscle-car horsepower. Import specialist shops may be asked, on an increasing basis, to align, modify or fine-tune increasingly elaborate suspension systems.

In the current import market, performance-modified vehicles known as sport compacts are finding themselves equally at home at local road courses and drag strips as they are on city streets. While the most popular hot-rod imports were originally designed to squeeze the last mile out of a drop of regular gasoline, these gasoline-miserly vehicles may now squeeze astoundingly high horsepower out of their small cubic-inch engine displacements.

With turbocharging boosts now breaking into the 20-psi range, and with combustion aided by generous whiffs of nitrous oxide gas, these little mini-rockets are posting elapsed times at the drag strip comparable to the huge domestic big-block engines of decades past.

Unfortunately, too many hot-rod sport compacts don’t have enough suspension upgrades to handle their muscle-car horsepower. Import specialist shops may be asked, on an increasing basis, to align, modify or fine-tune increasingly elaborate suspension systems.

If you take a position in this market, you’ll need to be educated on how to sell your potential customer the complete suspension upgrade!

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