I recently found out that I can’t enter the biggest mall in the city with my AW11. Front lip hits the floor while driving to the lower level of the garage and everyone behind me gets pissed.
Even before this incident, I’ve been thinking of building a moving front lip. I should be able to raise or lower it from the car to have enough clearance for tight spots and it should work reasonably fast and not disintegrate while driving highway speeds.
I had some doubts what the law would say about this, so I called my local MOT office. The engineer told me that there are no laws concerning the front lip, only front bumper is mentioned. The things I have to keep in mind are pointy parts and the width of the lip (not wider than the widest point of the car). He even told me that this is a good solution.
I’ve had some discussions about this with Maladar. Maladar has insisted that certain JZA80 Supras have some kind of moving spoiler, but I couldn’t find anything about that. Maladar then surprised me with a link to a youtube video about the front lip.
It is called “Toyota Supra Active Front Spoiler”
I found out that SARD has built a carbon fibre version of the lip as well. Sounds like it might be rare 🙂
Yeah, I’ve actually made some sketches how I could make it wider with that linear actuator… I just need to cut it half, then the first actuator would widen it and second one would lift it 🙂 And then I had some ideas of a completely new front lip. It would look a bit like the buddy club one, but I the design would allow easy movement. 🙂
I tried to post at work, but my cellphone was being poop! I was thinking, what if you made your own buddyclub styled lip but wider [width and depth] so it came away from the bumper just a bit so you could lift it straight up and it wouldn’t rub/scratch against the bumper? Would be hard to make but would be quite practical xD!
Yeah! (I think I have to build couple of prototypes first…) 🙂
Holy crap a spoiler like that would be so incredibly useful! Are you going to try make one xD? Awesome updates!!