cbrock

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Ok, well with all this bad talk about demonspeed I figured I'd take matters into my own hands and try constructing my own chin spoiler. This is the basic picture of the male mold. I still need to shape it then bondo the hell out of it and shape it some more. But let me know what you guys think of it.

Ridge Tech

when you refine it, I think it will look ok. Maybe make it thiner and extend out futher (my 2 cents)

PraxRX7

I like it...what materials are you using...I need to make one for my S5.

RETed

Adding a front chin spoiler is tricky - are you designing it for a stock ride-height vehicle?&nbsp I would think most owners who have a slightly lower car by the time you add something like this on.&nbsp The design looks pretty damn low if you end up dropping the suspension 1"-1.5" (typical drops ranges).&nbsp I'm assuming it's going to be fiberglass or some kinda composite - this means something pretty fragile if you start contacting concrete curbs and parking space guards.

I don't mean to have such negative comments on such a great project, but I've seen too many front lips end up with too much damage in a very short period of time cause of inattentive drivers.



-Ted

blu_gxl

also i like the demonspeed design how it had the little winglets like the factory S5 unit does you know larger on the sides and comes in on the middle.

james

RX7GT

It looks good to me. I was thinking of building one for my 90 T2 since the factory lip is long gone. I need to get my hands on an S5 style that I can pattern but I don't want to pay dealer prices.

rx7-rage

i think it looks pretty damn good. but the idea about making it maybe a little thinner and stick out a little more (although we can't really see how far it sticks out now) and not necessary, but the little winglet things like someone else mentioned to make it a little bit more aggressive would be cool.

rx7-rage

RexRyder

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coo, i like it

86Rx7GXL

Man whos car is that? i wanna know what kind of paint job that is. im gonna paint my this summer i want it just like that.

cbrock

iTrader: (1)

It's my car and that's the factory white on a 10th ann model. Granted it only has 45,000 miles on it. As for the spoiler, it's only 2in tall and the car is on the ground...so it appears as if you can fit a K&N recharge kit box under it with a screw driver on top. It comes out about 1.5-2in from the bumper. To make the mold I'm using that foam insulation board (9 bux for a 4x8 sheet), using 3m 77 to glue it together and carefully using my grinder to get it to shape. I'm not super conserned with the shape cuz I can add filler and hand sand it. Once this is done I have the male mold. I then mold the female side and again bondo any flaws. AND then I make the actual piece off the last mold.

EProdRx7

careful with that pink depot foam board. The bondo eats it and the cracks to ****. Use some laytex paint inbetween the bondo and the foam.

RacerJason

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You're ahead of me... I'm build more of a racing splitter design... Just tooling around with it right now but will post pics some day. Mine has to be fairly functional so it will have threaded anchors (a la DTM) extending to two points on the leading edge of the splitter for finite adjustment. It'll be trick. Yours looks good, keep up the work.

Bambam7

I personally like a bit of an "L" profile a bit more.... You know- Having it totally vertical where it mounts to the bumper, down to the bottom edge, then having the bottom edge extend straight out, parallel to the ground for and inch or two...
My 2 cents...