Front bumper air intakes
 

I can't decide. I'm not great with design. What flows/better?


1.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...ps87485527.jpg

Or 2.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...psf789617e.jpg

top in theory

Christ they're both so ugly.

What intake do you have? Also, would you get a better front bumper all together? Knowing your posts it looks like you want a race car, and the OEM bumper isn't a good one. Stillen would solve a few problems in one shot

Stillen front bumper. Call it a day. Lol

My intake. To me spending little as possible is best. No need for a new bumper. Make a front splitter that reaches far back and call it a day. I'm sure this bumper is good enough. I don't get any worse mpg than a nismo so the drag must still be ok.

I forgot about your home made intake.
Why not cut parts out under the bumper like the Stillen's bumper?

I don't follow? A joke?

Ps the stillin looks like junk. Ever see martins in the sun? It like melts and deforms.

I beg to differ. Without proper prep work and paint, any good thing will look like crap. I think mine came out great.

http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/t...psd084a0d6.jpg

Neither, you need a hi-pressure area and the best place is from the base of the windscreen (oops .. sorry, windshield)

Paint and prep has no bearing on the sun heating the bumper up and deforming it.

No, I'm serious.

Yeah, I have. I've actually seen it in person. His isn't painted. Mine is... It doesn't deform at all, is much more rigid after prep and paint

Disagree. My Stillen bumper is way more rigid prepped and painted

It's just a matter of time if you drive the car hard, I do 140's several times a year to about top speed also, the bumper is just too heavy for what it is. Out in the summer on track bumper just flexes like crazy, out in the cold is fine. The top sags and just too damn heavy. Thinking of putting stock bumper back w varis lip or ings bumpers or wait for big one coming out

Besides being lower I see no difference than with brake duct cooling lines. They're holes on the front bumper and seem to work for people. I will say this though, seeing people sell stillen cai the filters are ALWAYS filthy in one spot. Mine are dirty too and its in the very back against the radiator in like a one inch section so some crazy airs going on in there.

O, I have no idea what you're talking about with the bumper than? What's happening with the cuts or whatever?

Hmm interesting.

Interesting. Whats it made out of? It's got such large holes I'd think it'd be light. Game plan is to use a sheet of aluminium and make a splitter. I know people will say use that cardboard looking sheet though because it's stronger. I just hate the look of it.

Polyurethane

I say get a oem nismo...you guys would be surprised what your bumpers look like above 140

My Stillen kit 3 years old and is sagging. Also side skirts starting to sag a little in the middle.....looks like **** when in the sun after a while.

I Often do high speed runs 1600km between my home town and where I live now ( Northern Territory Australia) - when I stop to fuel up, I have had to 'pop' the front bumper back into place under the headlights - certainly leads me to believe to flexing on a hot day at speed - sick of it -

I am putting my OEM kit back on - I think my stillen kit will suit someone else in a much much cooler climate and/or the dump....

^That sucks

Ever thought about using builder's expanding foam behind it?

Any evidence of this? I still think with a splitter the difference is marginal. Plus I'm not a huge fan of it.

This is a wild guess but I guess the stillen bumper weights 3x stock bumper lol!!!

Wow!!

Yeah, probably 2x, maybe more, but it just seems a lot bigger too. I made mine even heavier by adding a scrape guard, lol

I wonder how much more it weighs than the Nismo, because the Nismo sticks out a lot more than the standard car

Hadn't thought of that - but I did fashion and make a metal brace to help reinforce and keep the bumpers shape. Still droops a little at the top where the emblem would be on the OEM one.

I'll put a pic up of it over the weekend.

It could just be me - but I had have the attraction to the OEM look of late - getting old I guess....

I do like the OEM look of the rear end lowered with spacers thought. Looks fuctional and squat.
Which leads me to ask - the FI ppl using spacers and track their cars - which spacers would be recommended?

Cheers

design 1 is suppose to flow better but those bumper cutouts are suppose to be for short ram intakes, well at least thats what they were used for on the 350z

Short rams though are to far away behind the radiator and support. These make more sense on a long tube cai system.

on the stillen bumper there are 2 slits on the front to move air straight to the air intakes, that's exactly where they get full of dirt caked on. I need to clean mine off every 3 track days, if I go longer and its caked with dust/dirt, I can't even pull on an s2k on the straight away......