Made an aluminum spliter GT500

[exp500]

No way would I pay $500-$1000 for a killer spliter, took it into my hands, I love the outcome, template out of sheet metal then aluminum, glad I love fabrication, mounted on factory bolt holes too. Sold it to a buddy for his 2013 with GT500 front bumper, you can't complain for $250 lol

-pete

 

[Never_Enough]

Nice work. What stabilizer bars did he go with?

 

[exp500]

Ebay adjustable from 8" - 10" ...it has 16 bolts holding in underneath, not sure if they were mandatory but looks cool lol

 

[sunburned]

How thick is the aluminum? Why adjustable supports if it's bolted on solid?

Does he even road course, bro? I'm not a fan of supports like that, I'd rather just see it a bit smaller and unsupported, especially if he's not actually tracking the car.

 

[exp500]

It is 1/8" aluminum, it's solid, doesn't require supports but he likes the looks,

 

[Never_Enough]

How thick is the aluminum? Why adjustable supports if it's bolted on solid?

Does he even road course, bro? I'm not a fan of supports like that, I'd rather just see it a bit smaller and unsupported, especially if he's not actually tracking the car.

Some need the supports. I plan on a front splitter for my Z & I do not have the ZR1 support behind the bumper so I will probably just install stabilizer bars since I don't feel like pulling the bumper.

 

[thomas91169]

Looks good, now paint it black.

I like the look with the stabilizers. Looks more racecar'ey.

 

[99COBRA2881]

What did you use to cut the aluminum?

 

[exp500]

Plasma cutter

 

[Screw-Rice]

Looks good.

Now that it's a racecar, will 4th gear continue to work?

 

[99COBRA2881]

That's pretty cool.

I run a small CNC plasma cutter at my work. Hypertherm 65a 10'x5' downdraft table. It's awesome how much stuff we can make in a matter of minutes on that thing.

1/4"-1/2" Birch plywood with two layers of fiberglass cloth on top and bottom makes a good splitter too. Mine mostly survived a glancing hit off the infield wall at Kansas Speedway. The rest of the front end of the car not so much.

Next one will be two 1/4" pieces of birch laminated together with carbon fiber on top, middle and bottom.

 

[exp500]

Now that's an idea, yea having the right tools makes life soooo much easier lol

 

[Never_Enough]

That's pretty cool.

I run a small CNC plasma cutter at my work. Hypertherm 65a 10'x5' downdraft table. It's awesome how much stuff we can make in a matter of minutes on that thing.

1/4"-1/2" Birch plywood with two layers of fiberglass cloth on top and bottom makes a good splitter too. Mine mostly survived a glancing hit off the infield wall at Kansas Speedway. The rest of the front end of the car not so much.

Next one will be two 1/4" pieces of birch laminated together with carbon fiber on top, middle and bottom.

Make something for the C6Z

 

[Nanner]

Looks good.

Now that it's a racecar, will 4th gear continue to work?

lol

 

[Sonic605hp]

Icwutudidther

looks good.

Now that it's a racecar, will 4th gear continue to work?

 

[KyleSVT]

Be careful not to bump into any pedestrians, Looks like that would chop their ankles clean off LOL. Nice work tho! Looks awesome! :beer:

 

[99COBRA2881]

Make something for the C6Z

Trace the outline of the stock C6z factory splitter onto cardboard and send it to me. I'll see what I can do. There's more to it than that but if you're serious then we can talk more detail.

 

[exp500]

Making the spliter is fairly simple, just need to do clean work, and if anyone gets that close to the car they don't deserve ankles xD