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Ben Lipman
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 07:08 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a)

I have run the car with only four Dzus fasteners holding it onto the car. Two that pass through a steel mount, and two the fixed to original steel guards. It stayed in place at 200kph, but the front diffuser section was being sucked down to the road.

Since then, I added a small subframe under the car that supports the rear of the splitter/undertray and diffusers. That solved the sagging issue. This week I made the small steel mounts either side for the other two dzus fasteners to pass through, so the entire front bumper assembly is supported by the cars frame. Hanging the bar off the sheet metal as always a temporary thing that was allowed to exist longer than it should have.

I never though of hanging the side skirts with Dzus fasteners. Would make it easy to work on the car as I always seem the cath the skirts with the jack or a stand etc. Of course, if I had air jacks...



Oh, and not as much as you Paul. Man up and go full carbon, LOL. Mazda went to all that effort to make Rx-7s light and easy to tow (in between engine changes) and you go and add steel to it.

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