Our Mustang Gets a Splitter

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Update by Ed Higginbotham to the Ford Mustang GT project car
Apr 19, 2016

With our project Mustang GT home safe and sound, we could get started on improvements. Since this project will largely focus on autocross runs, we would start our modifications with a new splitter.

The guys from PowerStream Industries paid us a visit to do some measuring on our Mustang with their fancy Romer arm digital measuring tool. The result of all this digital foolishness is that they’ll be able to make an exact digital model of our Mustang’s underparts in their computers that they’ll use to design a trick splitter. Powerstream knows a thing or two about splitters as the vast majority of the NASCAR Sprint Cup field uses their composite splitters to great effect.

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captdownshift
captdownshift GRM+ Memberand UberDork
4/19/16 4:10 p.m.

A pedestrian friendly splitter mod of course

tuna55
tuna55 MegaDork
4/19/16 10:24 p.m.

Now I want an arm. Thanks!

dean1484
dean1484 GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/19/16 10:50 p.m.

I was hoping to see somthing a bit more shadtree but hay if they were in my rolodex I would call them.

JG Pasterjak
JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
4/20/16 7:43 a.m.
dean1484 wrote: I was hoping to see somthing a bit more shadtree but hay if they were in my rolodex I would call them.

You'll like the rear spoiler, then.

RossD
RossD UltimaDork
4/20/16 7:57 a.m.
tuna55 wrote: Now I want an arm. Thanks!

Look up what people do with the XBox Kinect camera. It's basically a 3D scanner and only $100 brand new. Compared to an actual 3D scanner for $30k-50k. I'm not sure what an arm costs.

WildScotsRacing
WildScotsRacing HalfDork
4/20/16 8:03 a.m.
RossD wrote:
tuna55 wrote: Now I want an arm. Thanks!
Look up what people do with the XBox Kinect camera. It's basically a 3D scanner and only $100 brand new. Compared to an actual 3D scanner for $30k-50k. I'm not sure what an arm costs.

A leg

ssswitch
ssswitch HalfDork
4/20/16 9:01 a.m.

Usually when you scan someone's undercarriage for free, you get arrested.

crewperson
crewperson New Reader
4/20/16 10:15 a.m.

Just out of curiosity how is this anywhere near "grassroots"?

novaderrik
novaderrik UltimaDork
4/20/16 12:38 p.m.
crewperson wrote: Just out of curiosity how is this anywhere near "grassroots"?

when an advertiser wants you to call something "grassroots", you call it "grassroots".

captdownshift
captdownshift GRM+ Memberand UberDork
4/20/16 1:55 p.m.

In reply to crewperson:

I don't think of it as grassroots, but as a very cool insight to how OR manufacturers and top level racing operations would develop the part, but would never dare provide us the insight as to how they do. It's very worthwhile to know even if we never are able to practically recreate the piece of the project on our own.

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