I received the front spoiler couple weeks ago (thank you very much again John!!) and finally had the opportunity to try to hold it on
Perfect, absolutely stunning!
I am going to make a few modifications on it, but they won’t change the looks of it..
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Very nice.
wow, I like it. Mine's sitting in the garage waiting for me!
Let us know how you do the final attachment if you don't mind.
Thanks,
John
Wow I like that! Who supplied that? Do you know what the ground clearance will be when attached?
Who's the old guy on the floor..? Almost a game of where's Waldo, no really, looks good,!
@Lane hawley posted:Who's the old guy on the floor..? Almost a game of where's Waldo, no really, looks good,!
😊
As I recall, the main criticism of the Revson spoiler was not necessarily how low it is but how far forward it projects?
It is a nice design and really is more then just a spoiler. It is more of a lower nose extension.
As such, it projects just far enough to make entering and exiting driveways a certain obstacle to the things longevity. Living with it in reality on a day to day basis is the problem. For a racecar it MIGHT be a different story but if I am not mistaken, I think there was a journalist reviewer that suggested that it might be better to make it out of a more flexible material?
Back then, things like flexible plastic bumper covers didn't yet exist but I suspect that was the thinking on the suggestion?
I know that when I got my 73 Pantera, the sheet metal under the radiator support was already torn up pretty good. So extending anything down there requires the acceptance of the inevitable that any spoiler is just living on "borrowed time" and somethings gonna' get ya'?
I believe when RickP (he owns a body and paint facility ) mounts spoilers (and he has done at least one Revson), he uses rivnuts into the lower cowling, and screws from the outside.
This makes it very easy to remove it, if it is required for any reason. Hopefully he or JFFR will chime in….
Rocky
@rocky posted:I believe when RickP (he owns a body and paint facility ) mounts spoilers (and he has done at least one Revson), he uses ribs, nuts into the lower, cowling, and screws from the outside.
This makes it very easy to remove it, if it is required for any reason. Hopefully he or JFFR will chime in….
Rocky
Without having one here to study, my first reaction to mounting the Revson spoiler or any other for that matter would be to use Rivnuts/nutcerts into the sheet metal and screws into them.
That seems the obvious solution but it isn't going to solve the issue of "curb damage" pulling them out, bending the sheet metal and damaging the spoiler.
These cars are so low in the front that even with the US coil spring spacers to raise the car they are still subject to serious damage caused by things like raised manholes covers, entrance curbs with the wrong pitch, parking lot stop curbs and driveway entrances with no consideration for under car clearances.
I've got the "factory GTS fiberglass spoiler" and it has survived so far with a couple of scrapes here and there but I think that is because it doesn't project out in front to the point of the front bumpers and stays basically just under the radiator support sheet metal?
Finally I got some “spare” time to work on my front spoiler project…
I got some Marine plywood 3/4” thick and traced the recess on the center section of spoiler… (I’m “wooding” now) cut the shape out and also rounded the corners to match the fiberglass..
next I will lighten that panel and give it some attachment points for brackets to bolt to the frame…
I need a front spoiler... Mine looks terrible.
These look great !...
Four nut inserts, five lightning holes
Smooth bottom 😜 with thin aluminum discs
… mating….
Bottom brackets… they are still getting 45’s put on before Powder Coating
and I’m also making nut plates out of the flat steel 1.5 inches long and threaded to live inside the structure. Originally, I intended to use a router and recess the steel bar into the wood, but the height is perfect the way it is!
The fiberglass is not sealed against the wood yet just glued in place
The right side was a pretty good fit from the beginning the left side had to be reworked with the heat gun…
they will be attached on the furthest, front edge and the far rear..
The bottom brackets are very sturdy…👍
and the best… Same measurements left and right all the way around
Approach angle
Looks like you have plenty of angle, should stay on the Cat. Larry
Mounting hardware M6
every bolt with large area washer, and rubber washer
aluminum square nut plates glued in position with polyurethane windshield glue
one of the absolute beauties with a spoiler mount like this is that you can undo all the bolts and the spoiler does not fall off… It still sits on the steel brackets and you lift it off with ease… obviously mounting it makes life a lot easier this way….
I can put the spoiler on in under two minutes,…
