Deutsche Nine TRS wing installed on car with pics
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please pardon my confusion... did this gorgeous thing evolve from a D9 wing?
Gene, Josh...
would you gentlemen offer a recommendation of the D9 wing?
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I have no idea where D9 got the pattern for their wing.
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Although I have not purchased the wing from D9, but I would not recommend that any of you purchase from them. Their lack of customer service is epic, just do a quick search. When I purchased the last item from them I made several call to them to discuss specific details about the build, timing and shipping. They of course, said yes, yes and yes, the product that arrived was more than 60 day late and took myself and my paint guy a huge amount of hours to finish to a presentable, paintable product. Stick with a stateside vendor who care about their reputation.
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Although I have not purchased the wing from D9, but I would no recommend that any of you purchase from them. Their lack of customer service is epic, just do a quick search. When I purchased the last item from them I made several call to them to discuss specific details about the build, timing and shipping. They of course, said yes, yes and yes, the product that arrived was more than 60 day late and took myself and my paint guy a huge amount of hours to finish to a presentable, paintable product. Stick with a stateside vendor who care about their reputation.
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You've mentioned the need for a LOT of finish work a couple times. Can you tell us specifically what you're referring to? What needed to be worked on make it look nice? Do you have any pics showing the problem areas? Why did it take so long to do that finish work?
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Here is the run down on my wing:
Many of the edges of the wing did not sit flush or line up with the aluminum adjuster plates. My paint guy had to build up some of the areas with more fiberglass or trim areas down to line everything up visually.
There are riv nuts in the rear of the side pods for the back bolts and a small tab off the front of the pods for the front screws. The front tabs on mine were drilled incorrectly. Personally I think A.I.R should leave these for the end installer to drill. Since I had to redrill the holes I was right up next to the incorrect hole on an area that is probably the most likely to fail of all places on the spoiler. These tabs also don't sit flush on the hatch frame so you will need to put a few rubber washers under them to take up the gaps.
The screws that hold the adjuster plates to the side pods and center portion of the wing were drilled on angles which caused a lot of binding when trying to adjust the center and also caused the plates not to sit flush together. I ended up having to use the side pod of another spoiler on one side. I also went to Fastenal and ordered screws with lower profile heads to sit down in the recessed plates better.
As others have done I did all of my homework and decided the A.I.R spoiler was the best option. If you're dead set on getting a TRS spoiler than I recommend the A.I.R over the other manufacturers but it's not cheap and don't expect a perfect piece right out the box.
Gene, I would have to ask him next time I see him. He had the spoiler for a week but of course was working on other projects as well.
No this a spoiler from A.I.R out in CA. As mentioned they have been around for many years.