NEW! C5 Half bumper / splitter concept! Help design our new product!
01-22-2014, 12:03 PM
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Drifting
You can get it, it just costs and arm and a leg because it is all whole new rear fascia. I almost pulled the trigger on it, but once I factored in paint and body, I just couldn't rationalize it. Amazing piece for sure.
Second would be a.rear.diffuser that will fit on the stock rear.bumper cover as a lot of people want this without the cost of buying a new bumper cover. This one is from carbon & chrome. We can't get it. It is sold in the middle east.
01-22-2014, 01:30 PM
#22
Racer
Well for the most part the rear diffuser is pretty much non functional for street purposes. It is basically just for looks. But a lot of people want this for the look. The C6 rear diffuser is just an exterior aesthetic. If its something C7 can produce to enhance the look of the C5's that never see a race track and can be adhered to the stock rear bumper cover I'm all for it and I believe there is a markets for it. To make a true functional piece would require hours of track and wind tunnel testing. You would end up with a piece that would not be practical for street purposes. More like this piece in the pic
01-22-2014, 04:35 PM
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We have had quite a few request for a new style of splitter that would be unique for the C5 and really help give the car some cool carbon fiber flare while keeping the original bumper. We came up with the idea to create a half bumper and integrate our splitter into it.
Give us your feedback and ideas as we post more pictures of the concept.
We will be offering this half bumper up to where the blue tape is on the car.
Here is the current mockup on the car:
Give us your feedback and ideas as we post more pictures of the concept.
We will be offering this half bumper up to where the blue tape is on the car.
Here is the current mockup on the car:
01-22-2014, 04:54 PM
#24
Safety Car
Well for the most part the rear diffuser is pretty much non functional for street purposes. It is basically just for looks. But a lot of people want this for the look. The C6 rear diffuser is just an exterior aesthetic. If its something C7 can produce to enhance the look of the C5's that never see a race track and can be adhered to the stock rear bumper cover I'm all for it and I believe there is a market for it. To make a true functional piece would require hours of track and wind tunnel testing. You would end up with a piece that would not be practical for street purposes. More like this piece in the pic
this is a real functional one . Pretty hard if you ask me so I honestly think everyone wants the looks of one instead
01-23-2014, 01:08 AM
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i dont like the half bumper at all.this creates to many install issues as these bumper covers flex too much and vary from bumper cover to bumper cover,theres a reason they make splitters to install under the cover and i definately would not want another body line in the middle of my front cover,make a rear diffuser that attaches to the bumper cover and make it with removable studs for the guys that dont want to drill thru their covers
01-23-2014, 12:44 PM
#27
Drifting
Ryan glad to see C7 carbon expanding the options for the C5. Here are some ideas that I would like to see. First the front splitter would look great if you could make it like the vortex splitter, bottom splitter pic and the one on car, but with the shape of the C5R splitter, two top splitter pics. This way it could work as a true front feed air system and look great.
01-24-2014, 12:11 AM
#28
Racer
I like the rear diffuser posted above. PLEASE dont change to a C6 rear bumper! We drive C5's not C6's. Plus someone already makes one like that.
I like the one posted above and something like this as well
Should be offered in both CF and fiberglass. You could have it mount to the bottom of the cradle in some manor and possibly screwed in a few places along with some double sided tape on the rear bumper. Some people will cry about having to screw into the bumper but we dont have much choice really.
I like the one posted above and something like this as well
Should be offered in both CF and fiberglass. You could have it mount to the bottom of the cradle in some manor and possibly screwed in a few places along with some double sided tape on the rear bumper. Some people will cry about having to screw into the bumper but we dont have much choice really.
almost impossible because of the exhaust divider I don't think members would want to buy new exhaust
01-24-2014, 02:25 PM
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Thanks for all the great ideas guys.. Looks like we will have a few options to choose from! As soon as we finish up the splitter we will start a thread for the diffuser and work with the community to build a new diffuser 
01-24-2014, 04:30 PM
#31
Drifting
Talked to Ryan and if there is enough interest on this idea then they would make this add on as well. After seeing the new 2015 C7 Z06 I really liked the styling they came up with for the side skirts. I thought this cut back style would look really good on the C5 and C6 vettes. Would be another option beside the ZR1 and ACI styles that are widely used. What do you think?
Last edited by Stealth02; 01-24-2014 at 04:34 PM.
01-24-2014, 04:37 PM
#32
Burning Brakes
Talked to Ryan and if there is enough interest on this idea then they would make this add on as well. After seeing the new 2015 C7 Z06 I really liked the styling they came up with for the side skirts. I thought this cut back style would look really good on the C5 and C6 vettes. Would be another option beside the ZR1 and ACI styles that are widely used. What do you think?
01-24-2014, 05:01 PM
#34
Drifting
The C5R and Vortex splitters combined into one would resemble the C7 splitter somewhat. They could call them the C5-7 splitter and side skirts from C7 Carbon.
01-24-2014, 09:10 PM
#35
Safety Car
Cool I like them ...Need some cool stuff for the C-5 ..I talked to some big people who make parts for the C-5s said after the C-7 gets going with people they will stop makeing C-5 parts and start working on C-7 stuff more money in the new stuff ... Somebody needs to sept up and make some cool stuff lots of C-5 vets out there I love mine...Thanks for thinking of us C-5 people seams like the big boys leaveing us behind not good...
01-24-2014, 11:38 PM
#36
Drifting
We can keep the C5 timeless with new ideas and modern retro pieces. I still love the looks of the C5 and enjoy adding mods that enhances it with new age tech and flare.
01-26-2014, 11:10 PM
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Racer
01-26-2014, 11:13 PM
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01-27-2014, 12:02 AM
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