[DeTomaso] front spoiler

[adin at frontier.net]

Yes, please.

email to me and I can post on picutre site . . .

thanks!



Quoting chris terp <thefuture98070 at yahoo.com>:

> I'd be very interested to see pictures of cars with front spoilers   
> as I am considering adding one to mine.  Would anyone else have some  
>  to post?
>
>   Chris Terp
>
> MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/4/08 20 16 50, tonydigi at optonline.net writes:
>
>
>> Hmm.  Is that like the Hall GT5 Air Dam for stock bodied cars?  Got a
>> photo?
>> I have Hall's and I just glassed in my rectangular fog light holes.
>>
> No, not at all. It's a tidy yet effective little air dam, which probably
> does a decent job of creating downforce (or more accurately,   
> reducing front-end
> lift), but it's not overly vulnurable to driveway slopes etc. the way a GT5
> air dam is.
>
> Here's a photo of mine:
>
> http://members.aol.com/mikeldrew/MiniAirDamGTS.jpg
>
> These are actually found on very many cars so I'm sure you've seen them many
> times before.
>
> It is designed to be mounted at the very tips (requiring a single hole to be
> drilled into the underside of the front fender on each side), and in the
> center along the length of the bottom grille (my car has a piece of   
> steel welded to
> the front of the valance, that the air dam then screws to). I found that
> the corners where the air dam curved towards the back of the car were
> dangerously unsupported and would deflect substantially under air   
> loads, and so a few
> weeks ago I fabricated a pair of shelf-like supports using aluminum   
> angle iron,
> which attaches to the front of the car using the existing central   
> screw holes,
> and extends outwards to support the corners from underneath. It's
> rock-solid now.
>
> (Some people kluge brackets and screw them to the back side of the spoiler,
> but that leaves unsightly screws visible and I wanted to avoid that).
>
> Mike
>
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