Spoilers, SCCA legal Options

[Randal]

Down at AAS yesterday.

All the modified cars had huge spoilers. I thought 8" was the limit, but it looked more like a foot.

Got to figure out what is legal and get one of those puppies on 222.

[J P Stein]

It would be difficult to do the Kiessel type end plates but not impossible.
Fab it up as one piece with proper supports & all.....all fasteners/holes drilled.
Mark a line to cut the spoiler into 3 pieces with the separations being in line with the trunk seams, then take it of & cut it. I think it would be worth the effort.

[jjackson]

It would be difficult to do the Kiessel type end plates but not impossible.
Fab it up as one piece with proper supports & all.....all fasteners/holes drilled.
Mark a line to cut the spoiler into 3 pieces with the separations being in line with the trunk seams, then take it of & cut it. I think it would be worth the effort.

I think it would be worth the effort also-either three piece spoiler or two piece trunk with single piece spoiler.JJackson

[Randal]

It would be difficult to do the Kiessel type end plates but not impossible.
Fab it up as one piece with proper supports & all.....all fasteners/holes drilled.
Mark a line to cut the spoiler into 3 pieces with the separations being in line with the trunk seams, then take it of & cut it. I think it would be worth the effort.

I think it would be worth the effort also-either three piece spoiler or two piece trunk with single piece spoiler.JJackson

When you say the two piece trunk this comes to mind, filled in of course.

[jjackson]

Slept on it-Reality is were putting out ideas in fabricating a part that has to work efficiently.To compete at a high level in EM SCCA competition-
Power to weight
rolling speed through corners
usable torque and HP
aerodynamic devices to help all of these equations
proper gearing
hell of a drive
All of the things that you attempt to improve on this list will not work.The learning process and the development is the fun-You are chasing fast with a car that has been really develloped alot of different ways by a lot of different people.I used to compete with an FP car that I knew was not superior to past champion cars (ie York car )not to mention the Gullick,Fordahl car.We kept changing,developing,chasing, got a few rule changes- and now were developed to a pretty high level.Some budget tight years, we just changed a sticker.Other years we could do a lot more.
ENJOY your project-take it to a level that others have not seen.personally Im a 914 guy in amodern car world-Fortunately we get rule changes and developments in technology that allow us to go places that previous cars couldn't take advantage of.IE shock technology,splitters, new spoiler specifications.....The earlier succesful cars had to come up with these things on there own-and fabricate .We have a lot more information to draw from.LOL JJackson
PS-Hate to see proven,crazy fast cars, not selling compared to cars that have the long "want list " of impressive parts that do sell.I've driven more broke cars with impressive lists than CORRECT cars.