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Originally Posted by JC
Oh and I'd like to point out that rice is really adding non-functional stuff and thinking its functional. Maybe a real STi wing was wind tunnel tested, but I hardly think your fell off a truck Taiwanese replica was. 
You should be scared Steve.  |
Aren't you the areo engineer? Tell me how a replica wing in the same location and same shape as the STi wing is somehow tremendously less functional than the original? I've seen the replica next to the original, and they're damn near identicle aside from the tremendously higher quality of the $3000 STi part.
...not that I think the Spec-C wing does all that much, it was put on my car for asthetic reasons right before the NORPAC car corral so my car wouldn't look like "just another blue WRX in the show", and it seemed to help since I picked up ESX as a sponsor shortly after that... remember that was the era of the "I heard there was a WRX around Reno w/ $45,000 into it"... you could say that my car was the most famous WRX in Reno at that time.
If you want to talk aero, I bet the '05 STi wings are much more useful. But on a windy day out at Stead, on the scales w/ the nose into the wind, the gusts were causing the rear weight to fluctuate a few pounds heavier. So, it does do something, even if it's not much, or useful at autocross speeds.
Plus, I thought I agreed that my wing was the riceiest thing on my car! Sometimes you've gotta do shit like that to project an image that sponsors believe will help sell their brand... is that "being a ricer" or "selling out"? Perhaps, but it does help pay the bills. Tell me, who's paying you to leave those stock white bits in your C/F hood?
Anyway... I know I just got baited into a long-winded post as usual by JC.
So I'll just wrap up w/ this: If you like ricey parts on a car, good for you... have fun w/ that. To me there's a really fine line. A *complete* C/F hood, or my wing (while pushing the boundries) are on the acceptable side of the line... but when you intentionally go for the "unfinished" look (or altezzas... god I hate altezzas), well, then I think you're over the line, and I'm gonna tell you that your car looks retarded. If you like it anyway, just keep telling yourself that "that's just Scott's opinion and he's a hypocrite" if that makes you feel better. I won't mind.