Here are pics of my old aluminum splitter before I lost it during an agricultural excursion at Putnam Park's Turn 9.
Bob Farmer of Farmer Automotive (Greenfield, Indiana) fabbed it from raw aluminum and a jig saw back in 2003. He fastened the splitter to the fiberglass with bolts. It wasn't pretty, but it worked to keep the nose planted at high speed. Farmer made that splitter as a one-off fab job for my car's original owner, and Bob was not interested in making another one.
With the splitter option gone, I was forced to go with Ruf's original front air dam Alois used on his original Yellow Bird. I'm using Ed's version (via Bill Verberg) of a Ruf front air dam using 4-in wide x 0.22-in thick conveyor belt material sandwiched between aluminum backing and the fiberglass. I'm going with Ed's suggested 3-inch reveal rather than Ruf's 2 inch reveal for maximum lift cancellation at high speed. The conveyor belt material apparently flexes for driveway curbing, but doesn't deflect at 130+ mph speeds.
A big "thank you" to Ed for the front air dam fabrication instructions!
I will post pics of my front air dam when the body shop finishes my car hopefully by mid-June.
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Originally Posted by umgang
Has anyone ever figured away to put a splitter on a Ruf front bumper in
lieu of the air dam?
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