View Poll Results: what lip?
Mazda Speed
15
33.33%
Odula
23
51.11%
Other
7
15.56%
NONE!
0
0%
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CorkSport lip
06-04-09, 12:36 PM
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CorkSport lip
ok so its time to buy a lip for my car.
i have an s5 and I'm stuck between buying the "MazdaSpeed" style and the "Odula"
can some people show me some pics of thair lips installed
or if anyone else has some other lip suggestions PLEASE let me know
i have an s5 and I'm stuck between buying the "MazdaSpeed" style and the "Odula"
can some people show me some pics of thair lips installed
or if anyone else has some other lip suggestions PLEASE let me know
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06-06-09, 12:25 PM
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Did you mod your tray? Is your tray not connected to the front bumper. If you cut it you are decreasing suction and allowing air to go underneath your car.The large intercooler is resisting alot of the air from entering meaning the air will route like this
Large front mount inter cooler + gap = under body aerodynamic drag and less suction for cooling.
Thats what i was told and it makes sense to me
06-06-09, 12:48 PM
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We are going a little off topic about the lip itself, but I thought someone might question my last comment.
In the photo you provided I trimmed that back after taking the car for a ride.
What happens in my case is the IC meets the bumper at that bottom where you circled it.
While driving at highway speeds my temps would creep up to where I did not feel comfortable with them. Remember im also still running AC, and I have a thicker then stock radiator- which is good for cooling at lower speeds, but at higher speeds you rely on airflow.
My temperature gauges dont lie, I can monitor inlet temps through my wolf computer as well as the obvious coolant temps, I have 3 cooling temps gauges in the car, stock gauge in stock location, mechanical auto meter gauge that is drilled and tapped into the waterpump housing, and the wolf sensor that is also on the waterpump housing- they all show higher temps.
So the next day I trimmed just the TOP of that lower part of the bumper, last time I trimmed the whole center out and was left with a hole and you could see the undertray floating in the breeze. If you trim JUST the top you are left with a flat part of the bumper that is connected to the undertray.
What I did then was take a scrap piece of bumper, cut and trim it, put a piece of 4" 3M black stripe tape on it so it was black, and I used structural urethane to glue it to the other part of my bumper. The urethane I used is what a body shop uses to repair plastic bumpers.
It was pouring rain and I had the car in one of those tents when I took this picture, I have to trim it back a little more where you see those 2 bumps- thats the bolts that hold the undertray to the bumper pushing up on my new piece I put in.
I had wanted to put better pictures up but I have since dropped the car off for a computer upgrade so this is the only shitty picture I have and it was not finished in these pictures.
When you see this modification in person people are going to ask me where I purchased that new lower spoiler from, I think it came out darn good. To top it off my highway temps are FANTASTIC now, car runs right around 190. So when people talk about airflow I point out that my findings are first hand and the result of back-to-back testing with nothing else changing except modifying the opening in the bumper, and by back to back I mean sometimes in a 10 minute time frame of trying different things.
First pic is my old set up, you can see where I hacked the bumper, second pic is with my new bumper, and 3rd pic is my latest- but excuse the really bad picture, it was raining and almost dark out so I could not get a good angle. Now the lip directs air into the undertray/bumper area because it extends into that area.
In the photo you provided I trimmed that back after taking the car for a ride.
What happens in my case is the IC meets the bumper at that bottom where you circled it.
While driving at highway speeds my temps would creep up to where I did not feel comfortable with them. Remember im also still running AC, and I have a thicker then stock radiator- which is good for cooling at lower speeds, but at higher speeds you rely on airflow.
My temperature gauges dont lie, I can monitor inlet temps through my wolf computer as well as the obvious coolant temps, I have 3 cooling temps gauges in the car, stock gauge in stock location, mechanical auto meter gauge that is drilled and tapped into the waterpump housing, and the wolf sensor that is also on the waterpump housing- they all show higher temps.
So the next day I trimmed just the TOP of that lower part of the bumper, last time I trimmed the whole center out and was left with a hole and you could see the undertray floating in the breeze. If you trim JUST the top you are left with a flat part of the bumper that is connected to the undertray.
What I did then was take a scrap piece of bumper, cut and trim it, put a piece of 4" 3M black stripe tape on it so it was black, and I used structural urethane to glue it to the other part of my bumper. The urethane I used is what a body shop uses to repair plastic bumpers.
It was pouring rain and I had the car in one of those tents when I took this picture, I have to trim it back a little more where you see those 2 bumps- thats the bolts that hold the undertray to the bumper pushing up on my new piece I put in.
I had wanted to put better pictures up but I have since dropped the car off for a computer upgrade so this is the only shitty picture I have and it was not finished in these pictures.
When you see this modification in person people are going to ask me where I purchased that new lower spoiler from, I think it came out darn good. To top it off my highway temps are FANTASTIC now, car runs right around 190. So when people talk about airflow I point out that my findings are first hand and the result of back-to-back testing with nothing else changing except modifying the opening in the bumper, and by back to back I mean sometimes in a 10 minute time frame of trying different things.
First pic is my old set up, you can see where I hacked the bumper, second pic is with my new bumper, and 3rd pic is my latest- but excuse the really bad picture, it was raining and almost dark out so I could not get a good angle. Now the lip directs air into the undertray/bumper area because it extends into that area.
06-09-09, 03:25 PM
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I'm not a fan of the "double lip" look
The odula looks nice when the center is cutout...
if u don't wanna hack ur bumper..then the MS lip butts up nicely with it..
The odula looks nice when the center is cutout...
if u don't wanna hack ur bumper..then the MS lip butts up nicely with it..
I was bummed out! I'm gonna have to buckle down and make a splitter for the next one to keep it alive :/