Originally Posted by powdrhound

Hey Mark, yeah, really goes to show how much load goes through the suspension. In the second to last pic you can clearly see the tire pulling away from the wheel bead. I think that was the latest Viper with all the huge aero. I got by him early in the session and didn't see him after that.

Originally Posted by powdrhound

Yeah, the OEM Cup splitter works perfectly with the RUF bumper which is perfectly flat on the bottom. It's almost as if it was made for it. I installed blind nuts in the bottom of the bumper and then I bolt on the splitter with nylon bolts. I used nylon bolts as they will shear off in case of a track off without damaging the bumper itself. I remove it prior to loading onto the trailer as there is not enough clearance with it otherwise. Works well. The beauty of the Cup splitter is that it is a $200 part. What's amazing is that the street GT3 splitter is $800 and it's actually the same part but trimmed down more to be smaller. I'm sure once Porsche Motorsport catches on they'll jack the price four fold. I've stocked up..

Did I notice a difference in downforce? Hard to say Chris. The car is very glued as is but any reduction of air flowing under the car will clearly provide a benefit. I'm sure it's there but obviously it's a subtle one. I'm certainly not one of these people that can claim that my butt dyno can discern an extra 5hp or a tenth or two reduction of lap time. Once I get some data running on my home track with this set up I'll be able to look at the Motec lap data and see if and where I see a benefit. I just have not yet been at my home track this year.

Originally Posted by 911mhawk

Yea that's a new bad boy Viper, I had to work really hard to keep with the earlier version (2010?) last year one day at Pacific.
Did you change tire pressure much with the swap to bigger?

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Originally Posted by Mtrboatvr6

If my car was in Elementary school, Powdrhounds car is what mine wants to be when it "grows up". haha! Awesome pictures, what a place! That one pic with the tire rolling off almost looks like an AutoX Pic, not a DE. Oh and the scale that is set in the picture coming up the hill to (turn 1?) is incredible.

Originally Posted by T10Chris

Yeah, I figured with the efficiency your car is at, plus being a new track, and such a minor change... any difference would be small, probably not even noticeable.

As much as I hate to say I'd do things for the bling, that completely changes the look of the RUF front for me. It looked great before, I went back and forth between preferring the GT2 and RUF look-both great in different ways.. but this makes the RUF look so much better in every way.

Originally Posted by powdrhound

The last 4 pics of the car from behind are going into turn 1 at the top of the hill..