<VV> Camaro front spoiler

[ricknorris at suddenlink.net]

Well let's seen now,
Since I have recent experience with the "frangible" Camaro spoiler I feel I can offer some insight.
I have used the one Lon sells on several of my cars, most notably on my Sunoco tribute Yenko clone.
During practice at the Mitty at Road Atlanta I had an opportunity to explore an unpaved area off the outside of a corner at speed.
This created a huge cloud of dust as the lower part of the front cross member leveled out a high spot in the red Georgia clay.
As I suspected the front spoiler was totally gone except for some fragments still stuck to the bolts at the ends of the braces. As was stated the spoiler comes with the standard three metal rod braces for a Camaro. (Lons does, Clarks does not)
I only use the two rods at the ends. Also I use nutserts in the sheet metal instead of sheet metal screws.
There was no damage to the sheet metal attachment points. Another spoiler was found and attached in time for the next day. I like'em!
--
Rick Norris
#36 Sunoco Corvair
www.corvairalley.com 

---- corvairs <corvairs at pacifier.com> wrote: 
> That is correct - We've sold several hundred of these spoilers and less 
> than 5% of the folks also bought the support strut kit. There doesn't 
> seem to be any need for them and they could actually cause damage to the 
> car - Lon
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> Robert Marlow wrote:
> > Travis Payne wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> there are some metal rods that are meant to attach to the back of the spoiler and brace it by bolting to the car body...   there are 3 of them, one behind each side and one for the middle.  They seemed to fit the Corvair fine.  My son only installed the two on the sides, reasoning that if he scrwed up and ran the spoiler into a curb in a parking place or something, that it would only damage the spoiler and not bend the sheet metal.
> >>   
> >>     
> >
> > Gary Funkhouser also mentioned these braces which are stock for the 
> > Camaro application.  But I advise against their use, for exactly the 
> > reason your son anticipates.
> >
> > I have used this Camaro spoiler on two different Corvairs, and it works 
> > well and looks nice and stays in place just fine without the braces.  A 
> > related piece of advise is, don't attach it to the car very well.  I 
> > learned this one the hard way.  I put nice big fender washers under the 
> > heads of the screws that held the spoiler to the body.  When I hit that 
> > inevitable obstruction, those fender washers ensured that the spoiler 
> > ripped the screws from the steel body.  [Insert dope slap here.]  The 
> > replacement was installed with no washers at all -- I want the plastic 
> > spoiler to be sacrificial.
> >
> > --Bob
> >
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