couple more pics from Sundays Cars and Coffee.... my friends have way cooler cars than i do. Hillclimb MSM with big enchilada and a hillclimb ITB mazda3
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Its been a pretty uneventful winter, the car got tucked away in December for the winter, hopefully March or April will be nice enough weather that I can get her back out. taxes have been filed, return is already in my bank account and i just ordered a Blackbird Fabworx "Limited Production Black Edition" Lexan Spoiler. Cant wait to see that come in and work on fitting it to the car. Im planning to focus on a few of the aesthetic changes ive wanted to make to the car this year. the past 3 years have been spent trying to fix the car and make sure the mechanicals were all finally back to the way they should be. I feel like I have finally achieved that and now its time to start changing the look of the car. |
well today i decided to pull the trigger on a Blackbird Fabworx "Limited Production Black Edition" Lexan Spoiler. i cant wait to see that come in.
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i just ordered a set of Singular NC Hood vents for the MSM. Im looking forward to those coming in, im not looking forward to seeing how steady my cutting hand is when it comes time to install...
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im ready for spring so i can start working on the exterior of this car haha
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The good news is once you cut your hood once, its much easier to cut again. After the aerocatches I'm fearless.
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Originally Posted by darkcambria
(Post 1391754)
The good news is once you cut your hood once, its much easier to cut again. After the aerocatches I'm fearless.
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Originally Posted by darkcambria
(Post 1391754)
The good news is once you cut your hood once, its much easier to cut again. After the aerocatches I'm fearless.
Originally Posted by Scaxx
(Post 1391762)
I think that goes for the whole car, cut the gussets out of the engine bay to fit the ls, after that when I had to take a 4" holesaw to my quarter panel it was just kind of a "meh, alright" reaction haha
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Originally Posted by Scaxx
(Post 1391762)
I think that goes for the whole car, cut the gussets out of the engine bay to fit the ls, after that when I had to take a 4" holesaw to my quarter panel it was just kind of a "meh, alright" reaction haha
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Singular NC Vents showed up on Friday, according to tracking my Blackbird Fabworx tinted lexan spoiler will be awaiting my arrival from work this afternoon.
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goodies have started coming in this week. heres a little teaser dry fitting the one part.
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took me some time on Saturday and Sunday but its done now.
as you can see, the oem spoiler did a good bit of damage to the trunk lid and i didnt have any reservations about drilling holes into it. https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2922/3...7b435e98_z.jpg got the middle strut mounted and thats where i took a break to eat dinner saturday and lost motivation lol https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3943/3...7e9b59b3_z.jpg view out the rear view mirror. im glad its tinted lexan and not solid black https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2873/3...f651b0ba_z.jpg out and about getting breakfast yesterday morning https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3946/3...be317ced_z.jpg |
Can you adjust that thing to be flat? I have to drive tons of highway miles to get to any fun roads and I have wanted that spoiler for a long time. I imagine having it up would kill my highway mileage, so putting it flat should stop that.
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Originally Posted by Chilicharger665
(Post 1405043)
Can you adjust that thing to be flat? I have to drive tons of highway miles to get to any fun roads and I have wanted that spoiler for a long time. I imagine having it up would kill my highway mileage, so putting it flat should stop that.
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Now we're getting somewhere. Car looks awesome. Love the look of those Jongbloeds.
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Originally Posted by Chilicharger665
(Post 1405043)
Can you adjust that thing to be flat? I have to drive tons of highway miles to get to any fun roads and I have wanted that spoiler for a long time. I imagine having it up would kill my highway mileage, so putting it flat should stop that.
It looks like you can replace the long rotating shaft(s) with a shorter ones for less AOA but the two small mounting brakets on the ends are fixed and force a high AOA. It's intended for trackwork so remove it for DD (Hint: Buy a 2nd trackday trunk to fit it to). |
Originally Posted by turbofan
(Post 1405332)
Now we're getting somewhere. Car looks awesome. Love the look of those Jongbloeds.
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Originally Posted by Lokiel
(Post 1405342)
I doubt it.
It looks like you can replace the long rotating shaft(s) with a shorter ones for less AOA but the two small mounting brakets on the ends are fixed and force a high AOA. It's intended for trackwork so remove it for DD (Hint: Buy a 2nd trackday trunk to fit it to). |
Originally Posted by Chilicharger665
(Post 1405488)
I do have a second trunk for track work. However, I don't want to swapping trunks all the time, but thanks for the clarification that it can't be adjusted to be flat. The closest track to me is 5 hours away, so I will have to suck up my (assumed) mpg hit if I have that spoiler on.
"For those who already purchased the NA / NB spoiler in the past and want to experiment with lower AOA, we have this drilling diagram - http://www.blackbirdfabworx.com/BFW%...gram4NA-NB.jpg Drill the Lexan slow, with a 17/64" sharp drill bit and very low pressure. This is what it looks like when finished - http://www.blackbirdfabworx.com/BFW%...stersMoved.jpg For NA installations, all you'll need to do is drill the spoiler in the locations noted and move the adjusters to the new holes. Crack open your favorite brew, you're done. For NB installations, you'll need to drill the spoiler in the new locations and also drill new mounting holes for the lower mounting points of the side adjusters using a 1/4" drill bit, 13.5" from center in each direction, as shown in the pic below - http://www.blackbirdfabworx.com/BFW%...runk-Drill.jpg Move the adjusters to the new holes on both the trunk and spoiler, crack open your favorite brew, you're done. Future production batches will be supplied with both sets of holes pre-drilled." |
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