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@997.one
"Not full aero but I would swoop up an oem wing if I could find one".
Amen to that.
Good luck on that holy grail quest for an OEM Aerokit tail.
As you know, they are rarer than hen's teeth, or a fair priced 997.2 Aero bumper lips, of any variety.
Now $2K retail, for a freaking protective lip.
I had the chance to buy a full .2 Aero kit painted in Dark Blue Mettalic last summer.
He wanted $5500 total, for both F and R, including the Sport Design bumper!
The wrong color and "local pick up only" scuttled the deal, but today it would be a "barn find" steal deal.
I am not a fan of the GT3/Aerokit rear wing aesthetically, but the full kit perfectly balances F/R downforce.
And mixing/matching different aero devices can induce squirrely ultra high speed handling, especially in X-winds.
The retractable rear wing on both .1 and .2 actually creates zero downforce at any speed. It does, however, cancel the lit created by a 911 sloping rear window and engine cover. Which looks like an aircraft wing cross section in profile.
A spoiler creates drag when killing lift (I am a pilot), so the cool thing about a ducktail is it both creates measurable downforce and reduces drag. Very cool. Not sure if Aerokit tail does the same- it sure look like a chunk of drag to me! Our cars' Vmax is north of 180, so losing several (don't know the number) mph off the top end is irrelevant.
I will keep and eye out for one while surfing 911 sites and pass on anything interesting.
Good luck.
Your car looks totally awesome, BTW.
The front bumper/lip and rockers just look bitching on a 997.
Just put a Getty duck on my GTS and bought a Speedster/Sport Classic lip.
Matching the Porsche wind tunnel-tested aero balance- which was already done for the Sport Classic- was my goal.
Cannot wait to do a midnight autobahn run on I-15 to Vegas with the new setup.
Last edited by Liste-Renn; 11-09-2023 at 12:37 AM.
@997.one
"Not full aero but I would swoop up an oem wing if I could find one".
Amen to that.
Good luck on that holy grail quest for an OEM Aerokit tail.
As you know, they are rarer than hen's teeth, or a fair priced 997.2 Aero bumper lips, of any variety.
Now $2K retail, for a freaking protective lip.
I had the chance to buy a full .2 Aero kit painted in Dark Blue Mettalic last summer.
He wanted $5500 total, for both F and R, including the Sport Design bumper!
The wrong color and "local pick up only" scuttled the deal, but today it would be a "barn find" steal deal.
I've decided to sell my spare OEM 997.2 Aerokit rear spoiler with the correct dual snorkel, PM if interested. As folks know these are extremely rare - but I'm after a Targa decklid with the reflector, so willing to take that up as a partial trade.
10-28-2023, 11:50 PM
