hey does anyone have any serious ideas or experience with making your own front splitter. i want to put one on like the flat touring car style ones. like the ones you can fit on forza 3 on xbox. they look cool. it might not do much but i think it'll make the front look abit meaner instead of the front bumper just coming back under itself and stopping.

any helpful ideas would be much appretiated. useless comments just dont bother!

cheers

 

Carbon mods do universal splitter kits, just cut to suit.

 

Gari

If you want to buy the real thing and modify to fit, try touringcarspares, but can be expensive for the real deal !

http://www.touringcarspares.com/part...php?cat=carbon

Kev

 

cool cheers, iv just had a look but as nice as they are, i was thinking more budget build in my garage at home job

 

just had a look at the touring car spares and my god they have some cool stuf. wish my bank balance would match it tho one day maybe. budget build is the way forward for now. but back to the main question,

any ideas for building my own front splitter???

 

I have made one in the past out of marine ply, then covered it in fibreglass.

Make a template out of foamboard or card, and see how it looks.

 

ah cool, do you recon i could get away without fiberglassing it? iv fiber glassed before and hated it. i was thinking some thin ply board and paint it black with high temp paint. its not near anything majorly hot as my exhaust is at the back of the engine and i dont plan on mounting it too far back.

also what do you think would be best, just cutting it in the c shape to just stick out from the bumper or in a D so it extends back slightly?

from what iv read and seen the D shape is best because it helps with air under the front bumper? i know its prob not going to be a major issue as its not a track car with silly hp but i want to do it to look good and atleast be useful in theory lol

 

The one I made was C shaped, with very basic L shaped metal shelf brackets attaching it to the bumper.
Remember hot air flow from the rad, so dont go back to far !

 

ok cool cheers, my front bumper tucks under so i can bolt or screw stright underneath cleanly and i didnt think about the rad heat, yea i think il just make it c but with a slight widening in the middle. thanks for all the help

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUjFV...eature=related

35 seconds in

 

Brilliant, love it
Forgot about the Top Gear splitter.

 

lol yea but hes just used un treated ply and when they show u under the car he has litteraly just fitted a whole bit of board and cut out bits for the wheels lol. but fair point to think about lol. i might invest in a fire extinguisher ha. can you imagine ringing the insurance company, yes my car caught fire because of some ply wood i stuck under the exhaust manifold lol