[DeTomaso] GT5 Air Dam - scraping damage and rock ships

adin at frontier.net adin at frontier.net
Tue May 15 16:00:36 EDT 2007


Well, here in the land of road-kill . . .I've learned to patch up the  
chin spoiler.  Looks like dukes of hazzard, but still works.

(singing: dead skunk in the middle of the road . . . .)




Quoting MikeLDrew at aol.com:

>
> In a message dated 5/14/07 13:11:58, phavlik at pris.ca writes:
>
> << Second, I would like to modify the underside of the air dam so that
> some sacrificial material starts scraping first before the brittle
> fiberglass contacts the pavement. Has anyone done this, or know of
> some other solution to the problem? I just want to hear a warning
> scrape before I damage the fiberglass. >>
>
>>>> Well, keep this in mind--fiberglass is cheap, and by definition,
> sacrificial, whereas what it is attached to is expensive.  Mad Dog   
> made the mistake of
> reinforcing his air dam to make it very strong; when he subsequently whacked
> it, it transmitted the force to the car and bent his front fenders!!!!  So be
> careful of what you ask for....
>
> I suppose you could put some sort of rubber strip etc. at the bottom of the
> air dam, but it won't change anything.  You will just hit the rubber strip
> first, then still hit the fiberglass under the same circumstances.
>
> The real solution, of course, is to (DUH!) stop crashing into things!  Plan
> ahead, approach driveways with caution, and if the approach to a given gas
> station looks too steep, it probably is--just go around, or go to a different
> station.
>
> I am in the process of fitting a GTS mini air dam to the front of my car.  It
> will have substantially greater clearance than you GT5 air dam has, of
> course, but it will require circumspection nonetheless since my car   
> is fairly low.
> I have deliberately mounted it in a manner that will let it snap off, rather
> than warp the car, in the event of impact.  Fiberglass is cheap--metalwork
> isn't!
>
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