Title says it all. I want to know if these will hand low enough to protect the front of the car. Also do i need to weld these on or can they be bolted

 

Your ATI chin will be lower than the frame savers.

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So there worthless for me right? Im talking about the wheels that mount up on your radiator brackets

 

They would not do you any good. The chin spoiler will hit long before anything could reach the frame savers.

 

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Once you lower the car they get to be too late.

 

Idea.

I happen to have the chin spoiler sitting on the floor here (raw, haven't even fitted it to the car yet).
I also happen to have a set of framesavers as well.

This is something I've been thinking about, but until I get to fitting the spoiler to the car, not sure if it's possible or not.

The spoiler does have a depressed area underneath it. The rolled lip hangs down the lowest.

What about making some extention brackets, solidly mounted to the skidrails, and extand the framesaver out so the wheels sit just behind the lip of the spoiler?

Something like this (excuse my rough sketch):


yes, the roller would be visible beneath the spoiler for sure, but as low as it is, it would not be readily noticible unless you were laying down.

This would be the net effect, as seen on the car. I took this pic with the spoiler upside dowm, but flipped it so it appears right-side-up as if it were mounted on the car.


The idea here is to take some of the scraping load off the spoiler itself, and let it roll on the wheels instead...so it would be a "spoliersaver", and not a "framesaver". As low as my car sits, I know I'm gonna tear this thing up, so something like this may definitely help.

The only thing I don't know just yet is the spacing of the car's skid rails, and how and where they'd locate in relation to the spoiler contours.
This could make or break the idea.
Anyone ever seen an underside shot of the mounted spolier? That could help me visualize this a lot better.

You people that already have the spoilers mounted....does this seem feasible or ridiculously stupid?

 

That might work but the big thing is getting that wheel to take a lot of weight,the bracket that you build must be super strong if not it will fold right up into the spoiler.

 

That is a concern, but the extention bracket would probably rest against the underside of the spoiler anyways. The spoiler is bolted directly to the facsia, so the force absorbed would be no different than if I was scraping the spoiler lip, except the unseen underside would take the load, not the lip itself. The lip will get scraped anyways, no doubt about that.
That sort of vertical load I think would be fine, it's the horizontal forces that would worry me.

Meaning if that wheel were to snag something while moving...say crossing RR tracks for example, do I really want to apply that rearward force to the rails? That is the radiator support too.