New toy

Look what Luigi got today !!! Now I can be a REAL EURO BOY !!!
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Lou, when are you gonna put it on? Looks real nice.

 

OK, what kind of boat did this thing come off of? Im sure its fiberglass, and salt resistant.......

 

wooooow! where did you get it and for how much?? do you have to replace the front grill too? thanks and bravo!

 

I will put it on after the August 30-31 Alfa club racing school I'm attending, I think.

I'm considering bonding in some reinforcing and threaded sockets on the bottom, then adding a removable splitter/skid plate to the leading edge, similar to Plugzit's 348 set up. Maybe made of black Dupont Delrin, rather than aluminum. Hope to avoid the constant leading edge scrape maintainence.

I got it on Ebay, $490 plus $140 shipping, it was made by these guys http://www.acivette.com/ but this is the ebay seller http://www.4rreparts.com/index.html. It is super high quality in fit and finish, I'm very happy with it.

bonneaud, my current grill will be fine. My car is a Euro model, but Swiss market and was delivered with the smaller front valance. After seeing my car next to all the other Eurocars at the last 3x8 outing, I just had to have the deep dam (pic below).
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Thatsa gonna look hot, Luigi ! Can't wait to see.

Cheers, Hank

 

Should look great. Nothing beats the deep euro spoiler.

Robb

 

Same here, looking good, waiting for the finished pics.

 

Nice going Lou. Welcome to the "club"!

FYI - I recently did this same swap (see my old posts). While I was at it I also addressed the following items:

Reconditioned the two radiator fan motors
Reconditioned the two heater blower units
Cleaned out the heater intake ducts
Reconditioned the air horn motor
Powder coated the grill

These things were very easy to deal with while the spoiler was off.

I like your idea using the Delrin. Let me know how you do this as I would like to do the same thing. So far I've got (only) one good scrape since the install (!%$#%$@!)

Bob R.

 

Look whats on ebay, I could have saved the shipping !!! it's local !

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ferrari-308-Euro-Front-Spoiler-Lower-Valance-New_W0QQitemZ180272460210QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180272460210&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C65%3A10&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245.l1318

 

Sweet . . . I've always wondered if I'd end up tearing that off on my first drive . . . let us know if you have to change your driving style to keep her intact Lou .

Cheers

 

Lou,

That's the place that made the one I got, but through carreaper (he got it through GT Parts and I found out they used the Duarte "plant" - via the infamous guy "Jim" we all read about in my spoiler purchase thread earlier this year.

Decent quality core but roughly finished and was a poor fit, at least to my car. I had to make a speader tool on the nose end to make it work.

Yours looks more primo in the pictures. Looks like they popped it from a high gloss mold which should reduce your finishing costs.

 

It's very clean, only a tiny flash of gel coat to block down at the mould seam areas. "My finishing costs" will be cheap (sweat equity) as I do all my own paint work, and I have a quart of matching 300/6 catylized single I bought a few months ago. I put the threaded inserts in for the splitter/scrubber, and beefed the support areas with stranded glass filler (no pics yet). I don't think I'll be using Delrin though, as a sheet large enough in .375 thickness is $750 BUCKS !!! Looking into black HDPE or Seaboard, maybe phenolic or PVC, aluminum with Delrin scrub pads ? Input anyone?

I'm 100% sure this new euro dam will rub speed bumps and my trailer ramps with my current suspension set up, so I have to do something.