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Old 03-08-2007, 06:42 AM   #1
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Pictures of the cracked wing/spoiler...

Okay, these are a little out of focus, but you can still see where the cracks started. I tried to fix them by filling them in and then resanding them back down smooth. After that, I just painted the lower bottom section flat black to cover up my work. About 2 months later it started to come through again in the same area on both sides. Before I re-installed it the second time, I even used 2 sets of rubber washers, 1 inside and 1 outside the wing between the contact of the metal shafts. That's 2 per side! They act like shock absorbers for the vibrations. But none of that still helped. It can still be fixed with some effort, but at this point, I just don't like any thing that bolts directly to fiber glass. This stuff is way to brittle. So buyer beware!



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I wonder if someone made a spoiler wing kit like the on for the porsche cayman, if that would be equivalent to 1 Goodman worth of down force, maybe even 1 1/4 Goodmans.
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See that worries me cause fiberglass can break to easily, probably not strong enough to with stand 1/8th John Goodman.
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Old 03-08-2007, 07:07 AM   #4
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See that worries me cause fiberglass can break to easily, probably not strong enough to with stand 1/8th John Goodman.
Exactly, I don't like buying anything made of fiberglass uless I absolutely have to. If you hit a bump at say, 75mph and the spoiler is raised it may break off completely like that other guys did. Down force equal to 1 John Goodman and 1 Rosane Bar.
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1 Goodman and 1 bar... thats like 1 Star Jones (pre-Surgery neck fat intact)
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Old 03-08-2007, 09:26 PM   #6
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Can you post a pic of the top and rear view so we can see what model it is.
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Can you post a pic of the top and rear view so we can see what model it is.
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I'm not sure what you mean by Model. There is only ONE TYPE that is being sold as a turbo style. If you scrool down and look at my earlier post, there is a complete back view of it. And I'm not talking about the current one on my car's rear. It was posted on page 2 of this thread. There is only one "Model" that looks like this spoiler/wing. But here it is again.

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Old 03-12-2007, 03:04 PM   #8
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Crack KILLS!

Found these today. These pictures were taken right after it started to crack and split. I removed it and tried to fix it, but it still came back. The fiber glass is just to thin there. You can clearly see how close it is to the bottom.

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