Building a new front splitter - a work in progress...

:hehe that cat, I recognise those paws as well, IIRC I asked at the time if the puss was for sale as a playmate for mine :hehe, apparantly it belonged to the neighbour.

I'm interested in your econometer, I would actually prefer an econoguage instead of a tacho.

 

Girlfriend's parents' cat actually, same property, different house :hehe

I've actually toyed with the idea of putting the screen in the tach hole, it fits pretty much perfectly. The econometer has a tach on it anyway so no loss I guess.
I like having the nice needle tell me how power I'm pushing so I'll probably mount mine next to the dash on the window side.

EDIT: I made a thread with some pics of the econometer for all interested: http://www.st162.net/forum/showthread.php?4566-Aaron-s-Custom-ST16x-Econometer&p=57606#post57606

On topic, I've been thinking of making myself a custom front spoiler too. Glad someone has done it before so I can have a basic idea of what's involved and build off of it.
Nice job so far, the wood shaper is something I wouldn't have thought of doing myself.

Aaron.

 

How's the front splitter project going?

 

Tell me about man lol. Some of my friends have gotten a car and put some mods in it, sell it. Then get another car with a turbo did some work on it and sell it again. While me, in the same amount of time, have only tinted my windows and coated my wheels black in the span of 3 years. Where's the fun in that? Lol. But I keep thinking to myself that "Slowly and surely finishes" kinda like the Tortoise and the Hare story. I think I'll much happier when I take things slower at times and think about what I need to do. But life sure does get in the way lol. Keep on it man. I have a mold of my front splitter out of wood. It's just waiting for me in the garage until I buy some fiberglass and make the final product. And before I do that, I have to worry about adding some more oil because it keeps leaking, and getting my radiator fans working, and my transmission problem. Are you planning on covering the whole underside of the front like this?

 

i want to make one of those out of sheet Alu if i can find some...

 

I started making one years ago and never got to finish it
The problem is making brackets to fit the chassis

Mine was intended to stick out of the bumper so it acted as a splitter, bumper brace and engine shield. It's fairly easy to do and I've even seen guys using marine ply

 

I used marine ply but it starts to kinda deform the wood when wet. So I took mine off. The majority of the brackets can be fitted to where the radiator is I think it was.





I wasn't done here with the brackets but you guys get the point.

 

make sure to make a few why your at it.......extra income.

 

whenever i have made em in the past, we use Alumilight I think thats how you spell it. Basically a honey comb material of aluminum. Super strong, super light. again not cheap...

 

Mine is Aluminium composite material (ACM), it's 5mm thick, light and goes a lot further back with a gap below the steering rack to let air out.
The problem I have is the splitter is too thin and if I was to hit somebody it could cut their legs off?

All splitters get damaged eventually, the secret with using wood is to varnish it properly and it won't de-laminate as quick

 

Those are one of the reasons why I don't want to go too thin haha because I was looking at some metal at a department store. Good idea and cheap but dangeroussss

 

Good to know I'm not the only one that tries to finish things late in the afternoon and run out of supplies! :biggrin

 

how fast do you need to go to feel the effects of the splitter?