Chassis Mounted Front Splitter, Request

[Spiderxkx]

Anyone have experience with chassis mounting the APR splitter or any other splitter?
I've done extensive searching, but couldn't find a single thread that goes into detail about chassis mounting a splitter.
If anyone has a How-To or personal experience/instructions, I would greatly appreciate it.

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[Spiderxkx]

No one?

 

[NoVaGT]

No one?

Judging from the lack of replies, I'd think no one has asked this question before. Structurally I'm thinking it would be a bit of metal fabrication and alterations to a lot of the rest of the front end of the car.

What makes you want to chassis mount it?

 

[Spiderxkx]

I'm just asking because I've read a few incidents where it's bolted to the front bumper. And at higher speeds it pulls the bumper off, or damages it in some way. I just wanted to see what steps others, if any, had to do to make this work.

I can CNC cut some brackets and have the shop bend/weld them.
I guess this will become a sort of trial and error experiment.

I'll try document everything if successful.

 

[baevid]

We usually mount the rods through the bumper into the crash beam. It's way too flimsy only on the bumper

 

[Spiderxkx]

We usually mount the rods through the bumper into the crash beam. It's way too flimsy only on the bumper

That's what I was thinking of doing too. I was thinking of cutting some slots on the lower grille, and making some sort of bracket to mount on the crash bar in front of the the radiator. The bracket would have some tab that extend past the cut slots on the lower grille where the rods would attach too.

Now I have to get some measurements and get them cut to test.

 

[Hivel]

Coupling nuts, all-thread, and lock nuts. I didn’t paste links for the all-thread or flat head hex screws.

https://www.amazon.com/Hillman-Group-180210-Coupling-Nut/dp/B003VFVVHW/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1565403252&refinements=p_85:2470955011,p_n_feature_fourteen_browse-bin:11433968011&rnid=11433942011&rps=1&s=industrial&sr=1-1&th=1
https://www.amazon.com/Hillman-1500...ZSP6WT1MJAP&psc=1&refRID=59KWF5HHQZSP6WT1MJAP

For a right angle frame mount; drill through the flats on one end of the coupling nuts and push a bolt through it and the frame.

Cheers,

 

[cop on my back]

I've done 142 mph with no issues. Mind you, I have a lot of fasteners on holding it to the front valance and belly pan.

 

[drive_55_not]

Vorshlag's S197 splitter ...

 

[2morrow]

You have to remove the bumper and connect the rods to the inner structure, similar to a tow hook. Of course you have to cut a hol in your bumper but its bottom facing so no big deal really.

As far as the APR front splitter goes, after you go through that mounting and cutting process I would not stand on it like how the Vorschlag boys are doing it ^^^

 

[Jupiter Sean]

Expensive but should withstand extreme speeds

 

[NightmareMoon]

I’ve done it. Requires welding and making brackets. Splitter rods connected to the metal bumper too.

Its far easier to just take the front clip and belly pan off and just use a lot of fasteners to the stock belly pan, but the stock belly oan is tilted up towards the front of the car and a splitter mounted that way is probably doing the reverse of what you want. To get a good angle your splitter will probably be 1-2” below the stock belly pan splitter at the edge so you’ll also have to fill that gap. Then you’ll be scraping on every little thing if you don’t have it setup to easily remove.

 

[Jupiter Sean]

I’ve done it. Requires welding and making brackets. Splitter rods connected to the metal bumper too.

Its far easier to just take the front clip and belly pan off and just use a lot of fasteners to the stock belly pan, but the stock belly oan is tilted up towards the front of the car and a splitter mounted that way is probably doing the reverse of what you want. To get a good angle your splitter will probably be 1-2” below the stock belly pan splitter at the edge so you’ll also have to fill that gap. Then you’ll be scraping on every little thing if you don’t have it setup to easily remove.

Looks great. What did you use to fill the gap?

 

[NightmareMoon]

Looks great. What did you use to fill the gap?

$9 of home depot garage door trim with aluminum angle brackets for support.

 

[Jupiter Sean]

$9 of home depot garage door trim with aluminum angle brackets for support.

Funny as I was thinking about plastic lawn edging. Thanks for the info

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