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Old Nov 23, 2014 | 09:32 AM
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Front bumper and splitter working... Hood fairly well... Evodave fenders suck :O a bit shocking but what can you expect? Also seems the diffuser is working well... The fenders and side vortices surprise me the most thank you for that video!
I gotta wait until I have an hour to waste and watch it. But, on the evodave mod; were the fenders modified other than the evodave parts? The fender has a lot of material int he back, that needs bent in a similar way to rolling fenders to actually open the gap there. The other consideration is directing the air a little bit, since the most direct route for air is right into the door jam.

I'm looking forward to watching the vid
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Old Nov 24, 2014 | 12:44 PM
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FYI kognition wings are 15% off until the 30th...no idea when youd receive it tho...
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Old Nov 24, 2014 | 01:07 PM
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If you did that, I'd be all over it. I was already in the process of custom designing a wing-independent method to do a safety latch that braces to the trunk floor plan to help on both bow up and force down distribution. If you incorporated it as part of the mounting bracket, makes my life and probably a lot of others lives easier to distribute the downforce into the frame instead of across the deck lid.

For my purposes, I have a ton of aero changes this winter in the works. The one giant gap is the rear wing. I haven't settled on a design/vendor yet and until I do I can't offset the aero balance shifts. I have one more event before I tear the car back apart for body work/widening work/finishing reparing last track incident. And then I need to start making some decisions on airfoil solutions.

You have a timeframe in mind for that bracket change? We talking 6 months or a year out?
Our Evo 8-9 gen II trunk mount brackets now have a provision for a hood-pin type retention method.

Also our new Evo X wing system can tie into the trunk hinge for added mounting strength. Both wing systems bolt-on using the stock trunk mounting holes.

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Old Nov 24, 2014 | 01:41 PM
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Does Professional Awesome EVO have flat bottom??
Flat bottom with a large diffuser.

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Old Nov 24, 2014 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by killerpenguin21
did you cut the floor out of thr trunk to get the rear diffuser angle?
The trunk is cut, but I don't think it helped the angle very much. The outlet for the radiator goes where the trunk was, so the "floor" is more or less in the same area still.

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Old Nov 24, 2014 | 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by AreSTG
I gotta wait until I have an hour to waste and watch it. But, on the evodave mod; were the fenders modified other than the evodave parts? The fender has a lot of material int he back, that needs bent in a similar way to rolling fenders to actually open the gap there. The other consideration is directing the air a little bit, since the most direct route for air is right into the door jam.

I'm looking forward to watching the vid
Looks like just spaced... Maybe he can confirm? But the disturbance is very evident in the video... Makes me think about cutting the rear bulkhead off my fender, or rolling it as you suggested?

George
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Old Nov 24, 2014 | 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by jedibow
Looks like just spaced... Maybe he can confirm? But the disturbance is very evident in the video... Makes me think about cutting the rear bulkhead off my fender, or rolling it as you suggested?

George
This wasn't the EvoDave mod. We literally cut the fender and added a piece of aluminum to push out the bottom. We did not cut the rear folded over piece off of the back of the fender.

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Old Nov 24, 2014 | 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by rawkus
This wasn't the EvoDave mod. We literally cut the fender and added a piece of aluminum to push out the bottom. We did not cut the rear folded over piece off of the back of the fender.

Dan
Thank you Dan for clarifying Maybe I will try my hand at making fiberglass fenders?
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Old Nov 25, 2014 | 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by killerpenguin21
FYI kognition wings are 15% off until the 30th...no idea when youd receive it tho...
Also fyi, the kognition evo wing is being discontinued as of 2015.
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Old Nov 26, 2014 | 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by killerpenguin21
Also fyi, the kognition evo wing is being discontinued as of 2015.
Originally Posted by killerpenguin21
FYI kognition wings are 15% off until the 30th...no idea when youd receive it tho...
Hahahaha order now for 2016 delivery....
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Old Nov 26, 2014 | 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by GTABurnout
Hahahaha order now for 2016 delivery....

MAY have something to do with why no more wings LOL
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Old Nov 26, 2014 | 10:38 PM
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MAY have something to do with why no more wings LOL
nah, he changed over to doing like quarterly production runs now for whatever reason. he's discontinuing the evo and s2000 wings because "the Evo and S2K have been discontinued and never were produced in large volume for the U.S. Market."
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Old Nov 26, 2014 | 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by killerpenguin21
nah, he changed over to doing like quarterly production runs now for whatever reason. he's discontinuing the evo and s2000 wings because "the Evo and S2K have been discontinued and never were produced in large volume for the U.S. Market."
Makes sense. I mean how many more of them can possibly be needed?
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Old Nov 27, 2014 | 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by kaj
Makes sense. I mean how many more of them can possibly be needed?
I would love to have one and eventually will need one lol
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Old Nov 27, 2014 | 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by mouseIX
I would love to have one and eventually will need one lol
Same here, but check around. They're are quite a few builders, in the same price range, that can get it to you in a reasonable amount of time. Aeromotions is where I'm looking right now.
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