Okay, my 1991 RS has a new paint job that is
less than a year old. I'm tired of going over steep intersections and turns praying my front
ground effect does not scrape. So far I have been lucky (basically turning the car almost at
a 90 degree angle when going through a dip in the road). My plan is to rivet or screw a piece of plastic or strong material just under the ground effect. To protect the ground effect from dips. Has anyone done this before? If I do this I plan on doing it right , so it does not
look like I just slapped a piece of plastic to the
bottom of my ground effect. Any ideas would be helpful.

 

No the white camaro is not mine.
I used it as an example.
The guy that owned it put some type of
guard on the lower ground effect.

I would like to do something simliar,
but not as far out or extended.

 

sounds like a good plan, ihate that my front nose bottoms out it pisses me off so much. i feel like an idiot when im driving and hit that dip and hear scrrrraaaatch.

 

i dunno, maybe because i drive like a grandpa, but my car doesn't scrape i just take it easy, and watch what is in front of me.

BTW, i like the idea of the peice there, it would help the aeros of the car out alos, if it was similar to the above posted.

 

I also drive like a grandpa, except for certain
areas I know don't have dips

Any ideas on what type of material I should use?

 

ABS plastic. Its cheap, takes scrapes well (just look at the airdam), and it's somewhat flexible. You don't want something incredibly stiff or it'll just transfer the energy to the valence and you may end up with cracked paint.

If I were doing that project, I wouldn't make it visible. Just cover the lower part and perhaps wrap up just over the corner a bit. I never see scrapes go so far up the valence that it's very visible, and a guard would prevent it from going that far up anyway. ABS bends and molds pretty easily with a little heat, too, so it's possible to do this and make it look very nice.

You could also try acrylic, but it gets pretty brittle when it gets cold so it would be more prone to shattering on impact instead of simply scraping off a layer like the ABS will.

I've never scraped the valence on my RS on a dip or anything since adding the lowering springs. Still scrape the crap out of my Z28, though. Might try stiffer springs to help prevent that. Most people are under the misconception that lowering the car will only aggrivate the scraping problem; they just don't realize that worn out springs are what's really causing it. Not ground clearance.

 

That isnt there to gaurd the ground effects, Its there to stabalize the front of the car at high speeds. A front spolier.