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#448
Dollars spent: $100, Bought it from the guy that bought it from Ryan.
Hours spent: .3 Maxed out the struts to increase AOA and drilled holes to accept double nutted studs on quarter panels.
How effective: 2 - did this before anything else, and it did enough to unbalance the car above 30mph. The big rear sway(Racing Beat) balances it out. Still, in many ways it could be improved.
Materials used: Alumalite, aluminum L bar stock, rivets, struts pieced together from hardware store materials
Size/thickness of materials: 6mm alumalite
Bracket location: attaches to trunk with triangular gate hinges
Tracks tested on: several autocrosses
Race/TT class built for: Autocross only so far.
Futurs plans include a front dam and splitter as well as re-purposing all of Ryan's hardware onto a bigger air brake.
Hours spent: .3 Maxed out the struts to increase AOA and drilled holes to accept double nutted studs on quarter panels.
How effective: 2 - did this before anything else, and it did enough to unbalance the car above 30mph. The big rear sway(Racing Beat) balances it out. Still, in many ways it could be improved.
Materials used: Alumalite, aluminum L bar stock, rivets, struts pieced together from hardware store materials
Size/thickness of materials: 6mm alumalite
Bracket location: attaches to trunk with triangular gate hinges
Tracks tested on: several autocrosses
Race/TT class built for: Autocross only so far.
Futurs plans include a front dam and splitter as well as re-purposing all of Ryan's hardware onto a bigger air brake.
#451
Going to give this style splitter a go at the next hill climb in August (1/2" birch ply, will seal heavily and then paint) for the sake of experimenting.
I had fairly little protrusion up front with the COT splitter, and think there was just too much surface area wasted out towards the ends with no spill plates and the shape of the air dam. However, the understeer wasn't too bad (though the rear wing was only set neutral), so I wanted to save that splitter to try at flat track events. I made this one using all the same mounts, with two extras in the rear as its much deeper. I'm on the fence about whether I want to add another brace for the corners or not. I have no desire to get too carried away, as all of the mounting brackets, splitter materials, and front end is getting hacked off either this winter or at the end of next year anyways for a tube front/Eprod air dam setup w/custom fenders. I will brace the spill plates though, as they're only ABS and will flap all over the place if left by itself.
I had fairly little protrusion up front with the COT splitter, and think there was just too much surface area wasted out towards the ends with no spill plates and the shape of the air dam. However, the understeer wasn't too bad (though the rear wing was only set neutral), so I wanted to save that splitter to try at flat track events. I made this one using all the same mounts, with two extras in the rear as its much deeper. I'm on the fence about whether I want to add another brace for the corners or not. I have no desire to get too carried away, as all of the mounting brackets, splitter materials, and front end is getting hacked off either this winter or at the end of next year anyways for a tube front/Eprod air dam setup w/custom fenders. I will brace the spill plates though, as they're only ABS and will flap all over the place if left by itself.
#454
This pretty much lives rubbing the ground in turns, probably took 1/4 mile of rubbing against the ground the wear through. And it doesnt get scratched when you slide it around the ground to get it on the car. The big scrape on the bottom is from when I took it off roading when he car died to get off course.
#457
On the off chance anyone is interested, I struck out locally looking for something to protect the leading edge of the plywood splitter. Turns out McMaster Carr has a rubber trim molding with a 1/2" opening for about $1/ft. Just ordered some, will report back if its remotely worth while, even aesthetically.
#459
On the off chance anyone is interested, I struck out locally looking for something to protect the leading edge of the plywood splitter. Turns out McMaster Carr has a rubber trim molding with a 1/2" opening for about $1/ft. Just ordered some, will report back if its remotely worth while, even aesthetically.