I need to buy a new air deflector for my '84 Trans Am, and am a little confused about just what part to get. I know what the air dam is and where it goes, but there's a listing for two parts on the website I am looking to buy from. There's the air dam with Aero Package ($23), then the air dam without the Aero Package($29). Which one am I supposed to have? WTF is the 'aero package?' Does any of you know where to get them any cheaper than this? Here's my car:

 

The aero package consisted of the "choo-choo" front air dam/fascia, ground effects on teh fenders, doors, quarter panels, and the rear spoiler. From your photo, it looks like you have the package.

If you want a really effective lower air deflector, try rigging something like this:




Nice sig. Speaking of stickers, I just had a ton (well, actually 2¼ tons) of fun with a sticker-laden Acura Integra yesterday. This was one of the most riced-out pieces of Jap-Crap I've seen since last summer. Clear plastic lenses, big rear wing, 18" (or bigger) "blades" with about 10-series tires, huge fart pipe, and PLENTY of stickers professing just how wicked the car was. I staged up next to them at a light, tried out the Posi (still works), generated copious amounts of smoke to fill his cabin, and even though he tried really hard, he couldn't pedal the little 3-liter "wheezing" turbo POS hard enough to keep up even as I lost it due to wheelspin. What an embarrassment to have to drive such a thing. It reminds me of the 6-year old girl with the cute little streamers on the handgrips of the Schwinn. Maybe he didn't have quite enough stickers. A few more really big ones in the windshield and he wouldn't have been able to see how badly he was toasted by a 4500 pound car with four doors. All that sheet vinyl mnust help his traction a little.

 

That looks sweet for an air deflector! Where did you see that? Yours or what? That can't be a stock replacement part! What did you do, go to the junkyard and cut up a bumper or something? I'm really interested!!!

 

84,

It's Goodyear Path-Grip matting. Closed cell urethane/EPDM compound, sunlight and weather resistant. I found a roll of it at my local industrial rubber & plastic supplier. It's 'V' ribbed on the back side for rigidity (or traction, or something like that). I cut it to fit and used plastic push "rivets" like are used to hold inner fenders and bumper covers in place. I attached it to the existing air deflector and trim. I used the same material to make functional side air skirts.