[Blainefab]

Announcing Group Purchase pricing on Blaine Fab's Lexan rear spoiler: The spoiler replaces the OEM spoiler for approx 7# weight saving. All hardware is stainless steel and aluminum. Angle of spoiler is adjustable from approx straight up to approx 45deg layback. Adjustment is accomplished without use of tools. The spoiler is mounted by drilling 10 holes thru the rear of the decklid, and bolting it on. The RR version has been proven on ITE, AI and CMC cars.

Normal pricing (prices do not include shipping or CA sales tax for deliveries in CA) on the BF spoiler is:
Open Road Race 5" $390
Road Race 7.5" $400
Prepared autox 10" $430

For this GP, for a total of 3 to 5 sales (combined any version) I will drop the prices 15%, ie:
Open Road Race 5" $332
Road Race 7.5" $340
Prepared autox 10" $366

If the GP generates a total of 6 or more sales (combined any version) I will drop the prices 20%, ie:
Open Road Race 5" $312
Road Race 7.5" $320
Prepared autox 10" $344

I will leave the GP open for 10days, please post interest or questions on this thread. For a firm order, please PM me or email me at ablaine (at) cruzio (dot) com, or call the shop at 831 427-3296.

Here is the spoiler on a 94 T/A:

(IMG:http://www.geckoranch.com/cars/images/spoilerbig.jpg)

And on a 4th gen Camaro:

(IMG:http://gallery.noid.org/albums/album23/Picture_006.sized.jpg)


Thanks and regards,
Alan Blaine
Blaine Fabrication

This post has been edited by Blainefab: Apr 6 2006, 11:35 AM

[Jon A]

That's it. I'll take one. Now for the size questions....

Are the heights for the Camaro versions measured from the top of the hatch or the fenders? You can see what I'm getting at as the Camaro hatch slopes down about 3" below flush.

In short, I'm thinking about the 10" instead of the 7" since I'm in the process of addressing the front in a big way right now. Have any of your customers with the 7" on a Camaro had a really big splitter in front? When I'm done with the front I'm concerned about being able to balance out the rear. I'd rather have a spoiler that's a little too long and run it at a more layed back angle (even though that's slightly less efficient) than get everything built and find the car is tailhappy at high speed even with it vertical. If I'm going to err in one way or the other I'd rather err on having too much in the rear.

Is my reasoning on track here Alan? I'm not too concerned if I knock off an extra couple MPH at the end of the front straight...I'll be going too damn fast there anyway. Has anybody used larger than 7" on the track? Or do you think the 7" when set vertical will keep up with anything I can do to the front?

For those who haven't, check out Volume 15, numbers 2 and 3 HERE. Personally I didn't realize the angle of the spoiler made such a huge difference. The adjustable angle will be a hugely useful tool for those of us without wind tunnels. My current Freedom Design spoiler stands close to 8" off the rear hatch but it's layed back at around 30 degrees. Probably a good match for front breather/airdam front but there's no way it'll keep up with a splitter added to the front.

[NickS]

That's it. I'll take one. Now for the size questions....

Are the heights for the Camaro versions measured from the top of the hatch or the fenders? You can see what I'm getting at as the Camaro hatch slopes down about 3" below flush.

In short, I'm thinking about the 10" instead of the 7" since I'm in the process of addressing the front in a big way right now. Have any of your customers with the 7" on a Camaro had a really big splitter in front? When I'm done with the front I'm concerned about being able to balance out the rear. I'd rather have a spoiler that's a little too long and run it at a more layed back angle (even though that's slightly less efficient) than get everything built and find the car is tailhappy at high speed even with it vertical. If I'm going to err in one way or the other I'd rather err on having too much in the rear.

Is my reasoning on track here Alan? I'm not too concerned if I knock off an extra couple MPH at the end of the front straight...I'll be going too damn fast there anyway. Has anybody used larger than 7" on the track? Or do you think the 7" when set vertical will keep up with anything I can do to the front?

For those who haven't, check out Volume 15, numbers 2 and 3 HERE. Personally I didn't realize the angle of the spoiler made such a huge difference. The adjustable angle will be a hugely useful tool for those of us without wind tunnels. My current Freedom Design spoiler stands close to 8" off the rear hatch but it's layed back at around 30 degrees. Probably a good match for front breather/airdam front but there's no way it'll keep up with a splitter added to the front.

Jon -

I read those very same articles last year!

I think I can provide a bit of feedback on the effectiveness of the 7" spoiler. I ran that spoiler on the red car in both CMC and AI trim and I run it on the yellow car in CMC trim.

The red car in CMC trim didn't have any aero work up front, so I ran it at about 60 degrees. Anything more and I picked up a bit of a high speed push.

(IMG:http://gallery.noid.org/albums/album23/Picture_007.sized.jpg)

In AI trim without any aero work up front, we kept the spoiler in about the same location:

(IMG:http://gallery.noid.org/albums/album09/picture03.sized.jpg)

Once we added the front skirt tho, that made it a completely different animal. We stood the spoiler all the way up and then taped down the edges to prevent air spillage around the edges and that just about balanced things out (see the bpic below). I don't think we had a chance to run the car balls out with the radiator exhaust exiting over the hood, but we expected to have had more front end grip requiring more in the back (or less in the front).

(IMG:http://gallery.noid.org/albums/album09/picture02.jpg)

The yellow CMC car has the same wing, but I've added a front skirt around the radiator deflector. I think I'm running this car's spoiler a bit more upright than on the red car in CMC trim but I can't remember off hand.

So, in a nutshell, the 7" one seems to be Ok with the airdam up front, but I think once you start to get psychotic with it, you'll want a longer spoiler. You can always trim to fit if you needed to.

Hope that helps!