New Sponsors: Universal Air Suspension & Dakota Digital

posted by Prashant on December 1st, 2006

I wanted to give a quick shout out to two of my latest sponsors now that the deals are closed and things are official.

Both of the following companies are leaders in their field and I am very proud to represent their products on my latest project, a 2003 Nissan 350Z. The car will make its debut next year and will be featured at the 2007 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Ok so who do we have on board?

Universal Air Suspension – www.UniversalAirSuspension.com

Dakota Digital – www.DakotaDigital.com

Universal Air Suspension will be sending up a complete air suspension kit. They make some awesome products and after viewing their facilities personally last month, I was nothing short of amazed. The bags themselves are built here in the United States and Zack from Universal Air Suspension kindly gave me the grand tour of their facilities. Their employees were very friendly and showed me how their products were assembled.

Zack also took me in a ride in their shop car, a 300C. Let me tell you this, the ride was BAD ASS! The suspension handles great during hard cornering and at highway speeds feels like you are floating on the clouds!

Here is a shot of the complete kit that I will somehow need to squeeze into my 350Z:

[ Link to the product page for more information ]

Traditionally in the air suspension industry, a box of switches are typically used to control the system. Depending on the setup, the control box allows the bags to be controlled all together, in pairs (fronts, rears, or sides), or each individually. Now with my build, I wanted something a little more sleek and more importantly, something that took up less room in the car. Finding space in the 350Z comes at a premium.

After hours of discussion with Zack, he helped me decide on a Dakota Digital unit. Now in the sport compact industry, their name may not be well known, however, in the world of custom bikes and hot rods, their name is top tier. Dakota Digital has been manufacturing quality digital instruments for the past 20 years and has no plans deviate from their mission anytime soon. They make all sorts of gauges for basically any application you could think of and in my opinion is a great quality alternative to DEFI Gauges if you are into the digital look.

I gave Dakota Digital a jingle and Scott expressed interest in the project and was immediately on board. Dakota Digital will be sending out their top of the line digital air suspension control unit that I should be receiving in the following few days.

Here’s a shot of the Dakota Digital Automatic Digital Ride Height Controller:

[ Link to the product page for more information ]

I will running model number DHC-2002 which includes pressure sensors and height sensors in a chrome face with blue display.

I will be sharing some of my own pictures and impressions of the products once I have them on hand.

Until then, it is time to get some sleep, stock market opens in 7 hours!