I want to make a chin spoiler for my car, how would I do it?

astronut1885

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What's up guys? I was wondering if any of you had any ideas as far as mounting a chin spoiler (like on an older Boss mustang) on a Fox GT. Anyone familiar with my project knows the look I am going for. Anyway, I can't come up with anything that would work, so I'm turning to you. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks guys!

 

astronut1885

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Geez. I figured atleast one guy in here would have an idea. Come on... I know people fab stuff up for their cars all the time... My only idea so far was to do what BlackFox5.0 did and use a Ranger air dam, but it sits a little to far back for what I want. That is kind of a last resort.

 

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You could use some plywood, oh nevermind, you don't drive a Honda. I've seen Mach 1 chin spoilers for sale and some adjustable ones seen on Japanese cars.

 

astronut1885

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yeah, the Mach 1s are for the 99+ cars, our front end is much more square then theirs...I had already thought of using one of those.

 

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Well yeah, but they can be "modified" to fit but that would look more or less shoddy. There are still the Japanese ones.

 

astronut1885

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tell me more about those...never heard of them

 

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Usually Carbon Fiber or Kevlar and some usually come adjustable with aluminum turnbuckles. They are sold mostly for imports but if you type "chin spoiler" or "front spoiler" in a search engine you might find something. They are also known a splitters and front lips.
www.cyberbestbuy.com
www.importfan.com <They have universal ones that should fit.

 

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uummm go to a metal worker and pay him to make one???

 

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good idea dirty...good idea.

 

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is this for like under the front bumper sorta?? i dont think it would look right imo

 

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It would look cool if it was done right and attached to the right front valance.

 

BlackFox5.0

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Keep in mind it dramatically lowers your ground clearance, mine hits the ground a lot and I try to be careful, if you have a metal one made it will just get bend up, I had a metal one, that thing got trashed, it will have to be made of Stainless Steel, or Aluminum, both of which will cost a lot of money, especially if you have it fabricated

Remember, I only install one for function, not looks, if I didn't Auto-X my car I would have not installed one.

 

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I think a chin spoiler might look kind of silly IMO; on a GT especially. It already kind of has a chin spoiler if you look at it. Maybe look at painting the lower portion of the GT bumper cover or a stalker bumper cover black to accentuate the lower lip better? Some photo-chop might be in order to see how that would actually look.

 

astronut1885

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I was actually thinking of just painting the center section where the air goes through. I dunno. We'll see what happens. Thanks for the ideas.