R Spoiler on a GT350?

[dtheo]

Personally, I think its a slap to the owners of the R models as they paid a premium to have that car and by interchanging body parts between two distinct separate models. I know its your right to do so, but don't think you'll get respect for doing it.

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[Rev Happy]

As an R owner, I could care less if someone added an "R" wing to their GT350. It's just a wing, and it's their car to do whatever they desire.

 

[stanglife]

Personally, I think its a slap to the owners of the R models as they paid a premium to have that car and by interchanging body parts between two distinct separate models. I know its your right to do so, but don't think you'll get respect for doing it.

Lol - OK.

PS - my bad, maybe you already have an R model but thought it was funny if you didn't.

Anyway - you opinion is on the extreme one side of the argument. I agree, from an exclusivity standpoint, it would be cool to have an R and nothing from the car be available to others...but that's not realistic as we need replacement parts, too - AND is certainly not what the car hobby is about - people can do whatever they like and it's awesome. The only exception I would take is someone making a 100% R clone and telling people it was an R...and even then I don't know if I'd mind because they would have likely spent more to achieve that than buying an actual R, which would be funny.... As I typed that, I realized that with the way the prices are going, that might no longer be true!

 

[GTthree50]

If we all gave a rats ass about what others think then all our cars would remain bone stock. Screw that!

 

[Mr. Maboomba]

Personally, I think its a slap to the owners of the R models as they paid a premium to have that car and by interchanging body parts between two distinct separate models. I know its your right to do so, but don't think you'll get respect for doing it.

I respect your opinion and as the OP I asked for it. Thanks for sharing!

Coming from the BMW world, in my opinion there is no greater sin - and nothing that makes you look more foolish - than slapping an M badge on a non-M car.

I won’t be doing any up-badging here. Just the performance parts that have a functional purpose!

 

[dpAtlanta]

nothing that makes you look more foolish - than slapping an M badge on a non-M car.

Now placing an "M" badge on a GT350 would be quite the hoot.

 

[galaxy]

Badges is one thing, but...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

 

[Mr. Maboomba]

She’s alive!

 

[Mr. Maboomba]

Someone on Facebook immediately rained on my parade by saying the R wing doesn’t really produce much downforce (124 lbs at 100 mph) - and potentially less than the swing - according to aftermarket wind tunnel testing by AJ Hartman ().

 

[Jbraun2828]

Looks great!

 

[LSchicago]

Buy a second deck lid, rather than redo yours. Then it can bolt on custom or back to stock as you or a future buyer wants.

 

[matthewr87]

Now placing an "M" badge on a GT350 would be quite the hoot.

Worst thing I've ever seen is an SRT10 badge on a 2006 Mustang V6 convertible....

 

[br_an]

She’s alive!

Looks great!

 

[Champale]

Does look really good!

Thank you for sharing that video from AJ Hartman - I have sometimes contemplated getting a plain trunklid for my 350R to make it look more stealthy but I don't want to add that much lift at speed.

 

[moby4dick]

I respect your opinion and as the OP I asked for it. Thanks for sharing!

Coming from the BMW world, in my opinion there is no greater sin - and nothing that makes you look more foolish - than slapping an M badge on a non-M car.

I won’t be doing any up-badging here. Just the performance parts that have a functional purpose!

I always laugh when I see the M badge on the back of plain jane Beemers.

I’ve got no issues with your R wing, as others have said it’s a 350, no biggee. I draw the poseur line when you add R badging, which really is just red badges on front and rear.

Prior to owning my current R, I had Subaru WRX that I bought new in 04. Eventually I replaced 99% of the car to STi parts — block, heads, cams, transmission, rear end, front hubs and knuckles, axles, steering rack. Outside I did STi bumpers, side skirts. Added STi rear wing with CF top. But never added any STi badging. People asked if it was an STi, always told them no. (with a story of the car saga) I never felt like a poseur because even though it looked STi like, underneath it very much had the goods. And then some ;-}

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