JGarland

Well, my new RPI splitter lasted about 6 weeks. After carefully navigating dips and driveways and various hazzards, it was finally done in by a small pile of snow in the center of the lane.

I am so f'ing pissed. Anyways, I will call the RPI guys on Monday so see if this is repairable - I think it's not. Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? It's made of fiberglass.

Also, I need some advice. Some of the mounting clips were ripped out of the front bumper leaving gaping jagged holes where the clips should be. The four outer mounting clips are ok, but the center one and a few others are gone.

How would I go about mounting this thing again? Would it be ok to drill holes in the fiberglass and then screw directly into the bumper plastic? Thanks in advance.

DaOtherOne

Wow that must have been a big snow pile!

Painrace

It is repariable but probably not worth the time unless you do it yourself.

I would fiberglass the bottom of the front facia and pop rivet a new one back on. Or, you could drill holes and install new clips and it would work just fine. It just takes a little more time.

Jim

JGarland

It was a narrow strip of slush maybe 3 inches high. I couldn't believe it!

RPI Designs

That is destroyed. We would not be able to repair that. I'll PM you details on another one. I've never seens one destroyed that badly! I guess the moral of the story is to not push snow with the splitter!

PM coming, thanks!

Painrace

The snow knocked it down scraping the middle then it broke off and the car running over it did the most damage.

Jim

JGarland

Good idea Jim! Thanks for the advice.

VRedZ06

Jim, Wait for the PM from RPI I think they will help you out and get a great solution together for you. It would be a grerat marketing move on their part.

ErnieO

crease-guard

It's not supposed to snow 3-6 inches in TEXAS on the first day of spring either...but it did.

We had the most bipolar weather of any place I've ever been.

Jay

vette4jr

And 70 degrees and sunny in Connecticut all weekend. Keep that Global Warming coming!

See what Josh @ RPI can do for ya...

C6z06n07

I'm starting to think that Al Gore is fulla **** man!

teking

LOL ... He may not have invented the Internet ... but he sure as hell DID invent Global Warming!!

obzidian

Or better put, a business model (A Crisis!!!!!) over a reoccurring, NATURAL EVENT. I hope he realizes that the earth was covered, literally (snowball earth) TWICE at least that we know of and initially, started as a result of OXYGEN being produced, replacing the methanol that dominated our planet at the time.

DOH!

JGarland

Josh at RPIDesigns.com fixed me up with a new splitter on a rush order.

Now all I have to do is bear with the indignity of the way it looks for a few weeks. I'm not going to go through the hassle of putting the stock one back on there.

rpm94

YIKES!!!

I have been thinking of a front splitter but you now just helped me with my decision. I love the look but doubt how long it will last. With my stock splitter I have 1/4th an inch clearance when I go up my driveway. I believe that these even sit lower than stock.

Good luck with your repair!

JGarland

Well, I just want to be clear here and say that its not the splitter's fault - the fault lies with the front facia. Had it not warped when I hit the snow everything would have been fine.

When I hit the snow, the weight of it forced the splitter down because the front facia plastic bent. Once the tip of the spitter hit the pavement it was forced under the car then broke. Had I installed a splitter brace, all would have been fine.

I was actually surpised at the strength of the splitter in general. I was so scared with dips and drives ways in such. But now I know that they are pretty strong.

I just need to avoid things like snow piles and now that i think about it, deep standing water.

rpm94

How much lower does that splitter sit compaired to the OEM splitter? I have 1/4 an inch clearance getting up my driveway approaching at an angle. This is my main concern. Don't want to spend all that cash and then scrape it up trying to get the car back in the garage.

Thanks

VRedZ06

That's why the ZR1 has the splitter reinforcment brace. I installed it to give my system even more strenght. I have the complete KaTech splitter with the tray and duct work now. I had a MTI Full Tray splitter on my car prior to the CF KaTech system came out. I was traveling down a back road last summer and there was a landscaping truck with a trailor in front of me. We all were going about 60 down the road and the trailor hit a bump on the shoulder and popped up a seed bag off the back of the trailer. it flipped up in the air and landded , (luckly) flat. But it was a 40 lb bag and I didn't have any where to go so I hit the gas to push the nose up as much as I could and szapbam thump and a major cloud of dust and seads come out from under the back of the car. It was like blowing an engine you couldn't see anything except a cloud of what looked like smoke behind me. I slowed down and pulled over expecting to see everything up front dragging the ground.

Well God was watching and nothing I mean nothing was hurt except for the paint under the splitter tray, and I had grass seeds everywhere in the air intake engine area and under the car.

I went back to see the bag and I tore the top of the plastic off the bag and all the seed just went everywhere. It took 2 hrs to get the seed blown back out of the radiator the air filter had to be completely cleaned but nothing was wrong with the car.

I have to say the MTI Splitter with the tray and the duct works is extremely strong!!!

ErnieO

Zip Corvettes

I will sell you one that is already painted black. It came off our show car and was used for Carlisle last year.

silverarrowZ

ouch