Dangers of double side taped carbon parts
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Dangers of double side taped carbon parts
As some of you might no I recently put the mcd front lip spoiler and diffuser on my car. I remember a few weeks/months ago there were question about the safety of this at high speeds... I'd like to report my real life experience.. I was at a strip rental last week with 15 120+ runs, then yesterday I was at pocono raceway on the NASCAR oval.. I did approximately 30 runs with speeds each time of 160 plus!! Not a problem everything is in place and did not losen a bit! The revozport hood, at the high speed you could see the wind moving it from underneath but zero problem!!! I will suggest if anyone is going to do this to protect the front end with heavy thick tape as I will be at the bodyshop fixing the swiss cheese front end!!
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i put on the MCD trunk spoiler with 3M tape and this weekend i had a little experience with a tuned GTR . that thing was a monster but i think i hung with it farely well for being stock . i have to say that the spoiler held perfectly at high speed 
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I have awsome videos from the go pro camera if I can figure out how to post them.. There are some real good runs from 90-160/170 with a bunch of cars
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regarding the cf hood
i know some were saying if you're gonna do a mile run or something high speed, that you should take the cf hood off.
is this because the stock hood latch might not be able to take it?
if so, wouldn't adding some hood pins to it make it more stable?
i know some were saying if you're gonna do a mile run or something high speed, that you should take the cf hood off.
is this because the stock hood latch might not be able to take it?
if so, wouldn't adding some hood pins to it make it more stable?
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As some of you might no I recently put the mcd front lip spoiler and diffuser on my car. I remember a few weeks/months ago there were question about the safety of this at high speeds... I'd like to report my real life experience.. I was at a strip rental last week with 15 120+ runs, then yesterday I was at pocono raceway on the NASCAR oval.. I did approximately 30 runs with speeds each time of 160 plus!! Not a problem everything is in place and did not losen a bit! The revozport hood, at the high speed you could see the wind moving it from underneath but zero problem!!! I will suggest if anyone is going to do this to protect the front end with heavy thick tape as I will be at the bodyshop fixing the swiss cheese front end!!
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There's 4 screws and a strip of double sided tape, it held watch my vid under c63 @ pocono! It wasn't just one quick run to 160 it was like 2 hours of beat down! 2 full tanks of fuel
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Double sided tape = fail if you keep the car for any extended period of time. Splitters & spoilers are designed to produce downforce & place extreme pressures on body panels. I don't trust double sided tape to withstand these pressures even if they seem "OK" during the first year of install.
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
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Double sided tape = fail if you keep the car for any extended period of time. Splitters & spoilers are designed to produce downforce & place extreme pressures on body panels. I don't trust double sided tape to withstand these pressures even if they seem "OK" during the first year of install.
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
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Double sided tape = fail if you keep the car for any extended period of time. Splitters & spoilers are designed to produce downforce & place extreme pressures on body panels. I don't trust double sided tape to withstand these pressures even if they seem "OK" during the first year of install.
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
Double sided tape alone causes the spoiler in actuality never to sit flush on the drunk due to the thickness of the tape even if people think it's so small. With such an aggressive spoiler, a permanent installation as in screws/epoxy would be much more effective.
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Double sided tape = fail if you keep the car for any extended period of time. Splitters & spoilers are designed to produce downforce & place extreme pressures on body panels. I don't trust double sided tape to withstand these pressures even if they seem "OK" during the first year of install.
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
Its probably that stuck on because i completely lined up the bottom of the spoiler with tape, there is no space left untouched.
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Double sided tape = fail if you keep the car for any extended period of time. Splitters & spoilers are designed to produce downforce & place extreme pressures on body panels. I don't trust double sided tape to withstand these pressures even if they seem "OK" during the first year of install.
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
BTW the 4 screws holding on the MCD front spoiler makes more sense
You do realize that the factory rear spoiler is held on by double-sided tape alone, right? Just throwing it out there.
Now the front spoiler/splitters, yes, I would not dare drive any car with those held on by double-sided tape alone.
