rx7gino

has anyone put m3 inserts on their fender yet or have any pics

Nick86

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Ones like this?



This is JonEQuest's car.

I'm sure that he would be willing to tell you about them, or post some more pics.

Be warned though - the rotary gods didn't aprove of this add on, so shortly after the car was finished, a police car ran into it. It was all the fault of the vents.

Mazdamark

Should have put the vents in where the body moulding was so it flowed better

Ocelot

Meh, doesn't look that bad, Z3 fenders however = ubergay. I wouldn't put either on my car though. It just looks like it fits better on his car because of the color. A red FC for instance would look really ugly with it.

rx7gino

i like the style of it, if ur into the stock look than i agree it doesn't look good but i personally like the style it's not played out like the z3 fender

SpeedFreak03

I am more into the stock look so I really don't like them all that much. Just my $0.02 of course...

Wankels-Revenge

This doesn't look that bad IMO.

Thats one shiney *** car

jreynish

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you guy's don't see the real benefits of those do you?
if done properly to be made "functional" they will reduce underhood temps and at high speeds keep your car more stable! There are benefits to those vents if done properly! Just figured I would add that!

BigTone

Most people however do not install them so that they are functional.

jreynish

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point taken, but still not much harder to make functional then it is to make look "ricer" know what i mean?

JonEQuest

The blue car is mine, they are not functiuonal but I plan to make them that way. I am swapping in my Jspec now and will piping them to flow some air soon.

John

NZConvertible

True.
Complete BS.

FYI, on the M3 one of those vents is functional. It vents heat from an electronics bay. The other's a dummy.

Whether they're functional or not, if they're not properly integrated into the panel (i.e. just stuck on the surface) they'll always look damn ugly.

jreynish

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I agree that if they are not installed properly they look ugly as hell, But I do argue your case that it is infact bs that It will help stability, I am not talking specifically on the case of the M3 just then vents actual purpos.

It stands to reason that the high pressure area under the hood actually acts as a lifting effect on the front end of the car!,
Now if these vents are place in a strategic place ducted properly it will releave some of this pressure, thus reducing the "lifting" action that the underhood high pressure area is exerting on the car. So At higher speeds where this high pressure area is actually effecting the car enough to notice, it would indeed help stability... of course only if installed to be fuctional... and properly done.

NZConvertible

But you didn't say that, and we are talking about M3-sized vents specifically. To get the effect you're talking about the vents would need to be considerably bigger.

Aaron Cake

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Topic cleaned up. I'm feeling too lazy to warn everyone for being immature post ******, so we'll just leave it at that.

TyCity

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Thats very civicish we are better than to copy an idea of a m3 dont get me wrong they're good cars but not good enough to be copied.

lots of posures have that type of stuff

better of making your your own

jreynish

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Sorry my bad...

So I would like to add the the vents would have to be bigger than the ones on the pic of the blue car to make the kind of effect that I am speaking of.