Pinto Car Club of America
Shiny is Good! => General Pinto Talk => Topic started by: ap72 on April 18, 2011, 10:49:21 AM
I'm thinking of getting an aluminum wing off of ebay, changing the mounts and putting it on my hatchback Bobcat. I know there is a stock spoilerbut I haven't seen any good pictures of it, nor any pictures of pintos/bobcats with wings on them like I am thinking about.
Does anyone have any that they would be willing to share?
Another possible thought of mine is to fabricate a sheetmetal spoiler simmilar to a stock car as I will be going with a stock car-ish paint scheme.
This is the paint scheme I'm looking to copy-
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2010/05/donahue-driven-champion-amc-javelin.html (http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2010/05/donahue-driven-champion-amc-javelin.html)
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic/2989/AMC-Javelin-T-A_3.html (http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic/2989/AMC-Javelin-T-A_3.html)
The second one is a little closer with the white portion further up the door, I am also considering using Green in place of the red, and the number will be 78 instead of 6 to reflect the year of the car.
Most likely the wing or spoiler (depending on what I decide on but probably wing) will be painted black.
The car is currently in bare steel, with mustang 10 hole rims (the holes will be blacked out and aluminum stripped and polished. They also have tire screws on the rears (not needed but I like the look). It's also been lowered.
The engine is a 2.3L with 9.5:1 compression, forged pistons, an Elgin 240/240 cam, 4bbl (will have ITB's in about a month though), with a mustang exhaust manifold. Eventually I will turbo it (already have the pieces but I want to wait until I get other things on the car finished). I also have a T5 to swap in and will probably go to an 8.8" rear end sometime this winter or next year.
The first two links are probably smaller spoilers than you are looking for. Also check out the "member's gallery" on the left below for additional photos.
http://www.fordpinto.com/please-use-the-classified-section-pinto-parts-for-sale/pinto-fiberglass-rear-spoilers/ (http://www.fordpinto.com/please-use-the-classified-section-pinto-parts-for-sale/pinto-fiberglass-rear-spoilers/)
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/car-driver-magazine-ecomods-pinto-mpg-up-25-a-1186.html (http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/car-driver-magazine-ecomods-pinto-mpg-up-25-a-1186.html)
http://public.fotki.com/VincePutt/drag_racing/pro-stocks/pinto-ps/ (http://public.fotki.com/VincePutt/drag_racing/pro-stocks/pinto-ps/)
Have fun.
Here is a picture of my spoiler, the wing probably wouldn't work, but I included a picture anyway.