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Originally Posted by jedi_sol
Did you make sure your air dam is only as low as your lowest suspension component?
otherwise, if your airdam is too big, any FE gains would be cancelled out due to having increased frontal area. You'll know for sure if you play with different air dam sizes.
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Didn't big dave get good results from a air dam that practically dragged on the ground?
If I remember right he started with something like 1 inch of ground clearance and the road ate his air dam away till it was closer to an inch and a half.
Well the air dam is going to be 3 parts. The completed outer portions are going to give me about 7.5 inches of ground clearance. The front lower control arms give me about 8.5'' of clearance.
The aluminum backing perfectly covers my intercooler piping, it was hanging down real bad.
Another thing I should have added was I want it to encourage more air flow over the intercooler and radiator.
Also you can tell there was no consideration at all for what happens to the air when it goes under the bumper, there is just stuff hanging down all over the place and I haven't made it any better by adding the turbo piping and transmission filter.
I am not sure what I am going to do with the center section of air dam yet. It is going to have to preform 3 functions be part air dam, an intercooler air scoop and an intercooler support/protective structure.
(intercooler has already been damaged slightly by hitting a raccoon).
I mounted my intercooler ATA style (almost parallel to the ground).