LT4vert

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To start, Im not a business and I will not be producing this, so no questions about how much or when it will be ready to buy. The prototype was derived my photoshopped pic below. It has received positive feedback from about anyone whos seen it and comments from Mark at 6LE about possibly producing it. When I did the digital design it wasnt with cad software, so its easy to make the design look correct. But that doesnt mean it will work in real life. Lots of shapes and math thats hard to account for in a 1 dimensional environment. Normally a prototype like this would be made with wood, shaping foam then hardening it with fiberglass or clay. I do all of my detailing in my garage so I dont want all the dust of sanding that stuff. Soooo, I went ghetto fabulous and used cardboard, masking tape, a sharpie, scissors and an exacto knife Cleanup was a breeze and it effectively told me what I wanted to know. Does it work on the car. Yup!

Heres the original PS



Nice little mess, lol. It really was not that bad. Start to finish I spent maybe 3 hours. A few in process pics.






Now for the finished images. This is were I ended up, but modified it. I felt the lip was just too big.


Sooo, I trimmed it back a little. Now I am happy, and thats where I left it.










Lastly a few far away images.




Off the car


I hope ya decide to produce it Mark

ramairetransam

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umm, yeah that looks awesome .

LT4vert

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Thanks man. It would look alot better on a lower car. I still have the factory level 2 bilsteins/eibachs on mine, its not 4x4 like non level 2 cars, but still pretty high. That about to remedied though.

Furious1

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Good work. I think molded splitter's with a shape like yours looks great on 4th gens. I'm not so fond of the flat plastic piece that 6LE sells...it just doesn't fit the contours of these cars well enough. Perhaps if I am bored on a weekend I will try something like you have done here on my TA. I have access to CNC's and water jets, so maybe I could even have something whipped up once I have a shape outlined. Again, job well done and thanks for the inspiration.

jaxcam02

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looks sweet

DirtyBirdMKE

Looks awesome.... similar to the WW/Sarona lip for the TA

hokeplaya05

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Nice job! i hope these get produced, i would snag one in a heartbeat

FamousZ

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Is there a way to flatten it out a little more? It looks to big in my opinion. Right now it looks a lot more like the wings west body kit instead of a splitter. It's not as extreme as the wings west but I feel it should be more flat. Like your photoshop..

whiteheartbeat

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Looks good, would love to see what this would look like an a LT1!

LT4vert

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Seems to be a mix of the lighting and color of the tape throwing it off a little, but it is pretty flat. If you going to integrate a splitter into this bumper design, there are issues getting "too" flat. For one, the bottom of the bumper is not level with the ground, it has an up sweep. With this design I tried to manipulate that and make the splitter level with the ground to get rid of the up swept appearance of the stock bumper. 2, the bottom of the bumper is so rounded off, simply laying a flat piece on the bottom, 6LE's splitter for instance, leaves HUGE gaps to fill.

I was trying to avoid this kind of design.


Thanks for the replies everyone.

scj

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I think that to really solve the issue of how rounded the bottom of the bumper is you would have to cut the curve off the bumper and butt the splitter up against the flat section left after it's been cut. It looks good though. Would be cool to have this produced, but definitely wouldn't be cost effective judging by how much their other bumpers/splitters cost.

Cajun ELESS-ONE

looks real clean. if this went into production, think people would buy it.

crimson_bird

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I like it. At this point you might as well slap some fiberglass on it and make of a finished product for yourself.

LT4vert

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I get what your saying. Cutting that off loses all the mounting points for the splash gaurds and such though. I was thinking as far as producing it, rather than make an injection mold, it may be more cost effective to use the plug to make a mold for a vacum bag and use carbon fiber. I see this tends to be a popular method with low volume stuff. Mark would need to chime in in that though. Since its obviously going to be low volume, I would imagine vacum bag forming them would be the most cost effective. Im a manager at an injection molding facility, a huge mold like this would need is BANK.

Crimson- I might do just that. I wanna nip tuck a little. The more I look at it, its still to prominent. Maybe its the blue tape throwing off perception though. Im gonna paint it black tomorrow and see if perceptions change.

Furious- awesome man, I hope ya take the plunge and try it, I think it would look amazing on a Trans Am

Thanks for the opinions everyone.

Kingc8r

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Your PS was the only splitters and canards that I thought actually looked good.

Good job at bringing it to life.

KissMyWhiteSS

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looks great. i always thought these cars needed something like this. That first car tho...is sex.

crimson_bird

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do a grey color. that way you'll be able to see contours and the way it flows better. black will hide a lot of that.

entrebiz

I would like to see how the canards you put in the PS would look with this mock up.

scj

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If I were making it I would probably try and incorporate the factory "splash" guards into the splitter as if they were either one piece or use the existing splash guard bolt holes to make this like a factory installed piece. I'd say wrap it in some Fiberglass and get it to a finished product before anyone commits to producing it. Not that the cardboard mock up doesn't give us a good idea, but a finished painted product to showcase what the consumer would be getting would make it or break it. Either a lot of people will like it and want their own making the demand enough for mark to produce it, or the flip side.

Atrus_SS

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Wow, very nice! I agree on everything you are saying - first pic was too prominent, and second still looks a little more large than I would like, but it could be the blue tape.

For me to look at doing this, I would need a rear valence as well (I know 6LE already has them out), and I think I'd need the side skirts. For me it's kind of an "all or nothing" - looks incomplete otherwise.

Really nice fab skills though, you have some great ideas in your head and the talent to actually show them well.