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Old 2004-02-04, 02:43 PM   #18
sperry
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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
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And what "enormous" hole are you talking about?
Umm, the enormous one in the front. I would seriously doubt the car needs that much lower opening area for the radiator, it looks way bigger than the stock WRX opening. Your car barely breaks a sweat in 105*+ temperatures too with the stock front bodywork. The bigger that hole is, the less downforce the front will have... course, they could put a wire grill over it and then you could just tape it up like they do in winston cup according to what weather you were running in.
It's only half as big as it looks. The top half of it is covered by a black plastic piece that's over the big ol' bumper required by US crash regulations. They just did a good job of making it hard to see on that car in the picture.

Oh and Prodrive *does* make that wire grill you're talking about, specifically for downforce:

[img:643c3af538=600]http://store1.yimg.com/I/fastwrx_1776_3199627[/img:643c3af538]
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