Ground Effects drag
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Burning Brakes
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From: Oklahoma City Oklahoma
Ground Effects drag
To the guys that have ground effects. How often do you scrape the splitter. My C6 drags on the driveway just barely. Looks like C7 Z06 or Z07 with ground effects is much lower. Anybody had to replace a splitter.
Drifting
Joined: Aug 2002
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From: Zion NC
Buy zl1 add on washers.
Since I put them on I haven't scraped the actual splitter again. The z07 splitter is low and sticks out very far. You definitely want them.
Since I put them on I haven't scraped the actual splitter again. The z07 splitter is low and sticks out very far. You definitely want them.
Last edited by ElCid79; Dec 6, 2015 at 11:35 PM.
Instructor
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From: Yorba Linda CA
Not often. Taking dips/bumps at a 45 degree angle usually does the trick for me. I did notice that the stage 2/3 splitter is almost the same height off the ground as the stock stage 1 plastic one it replaces so you won't be scraping anything that you didn't with the stock kit.
Last edited by ramyk; Dec 7, 2015 at 03:02 PM.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Aug 2014
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From: Fonthill Ontario
My car is not lowered and I don't hit at all. Considered the bolts but they don't seem to provide any protection where the splitter will scrape whic is the front bottom edge.
Last edited by AllFlash; Dec 7, 2015 at 08:50 AM.
Melting Slicks
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From: Bridgewater NJ
I have the Z07 ground effects, and I've never once scraped the splitter. In fact, I have only scraped the air dam in front of the wheels once since buying the car in July. In my Stingray (Z51) I seemed to scrape the air dams more often.
Tech Contributor
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From: Charlotte, NC (formerly Endicott, NY)
I scraped the splitter and the side skirts going over a speed bump even though I was going about 3 mph other than that the car doesn't scrape as much as my C6Z which I could not get into or out of my flat driveway without scraping no matter how much I angled the car.
Bill
Bill
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From: Redmond WA
Mine is a Caravaggio front unit but I scrape it a little less than the factory C6Z front piece, which surprised me. So there must be slightly more clearance.
That said, the C6Z was probably a $150 plastic part and these are $2K or something. My flat underbody panel is almost flush with the edge of the splitter; had I shimmed it down a washer or two I wouldn't be able to "hook" it on anything backing up, but it's got about 1/8" of "catch" right now.
That said, the C6Z was probably a $150 plastic part and these are $2K or something. My flat underbody panel is almost flush with the edge of the splitter; had I shimmed it down a washer or two I wouldn't be able to "hook" it on anything backing up, but it's got about 1/8" of "catch" right now.
Last edited by davepl; Dec 7, 2015 at 12:22 PM.
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