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Originally Posted by Hancha Group
This is the concept I had in mind. Please excuse the poor drawing skills. It's easiest to imagine it kind of like the current STI wing but about only half as tall. I imagine it won't stand more than 6" off the trunk so it'd be just above the third brake light.
Picture of said STI for reference
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Is that an air fence/lip on the trunk lip or a flush piece to square off the rounded trunk lip surface? I was thinking of using a small lip (like the stillen one) in conjunction with the GTR style 'wing'...
I very much like the direction of that concept drawing; however the end product ends up being, it would be nice if the side/fences blended with the design of the 86 as much as possible. That's the only thing I really don't like about all of the lip/spoiler designs I've seen, save for the Stillen which is just a tiny lip that gets rid of the trunk rear roundness. If the supporting structure for the wing element could look like it was actually one with the trunk lid as opposed to an added on piece it would be the most awesome thing ever. More along the oneness of Porsche 911 GT3 RS lines (well it is a single piece...) as opposed to the multiple bulky and a little unsightly elements of the STi lines (you look and it and see five separate pieces without even having to think about it - if there was a way to make the mounts and upright/fences appear as one piece at a glance and also part of the trunk then you would have something that appears more like a two piece design - wing element with trunk/supports/end-plate; like the appearance of the GT3 RS wing where there's trunk and wing element)
But something like that probably means custom trunk right to make it as one unit.... Is there no way to make add on pieces which smoothly blend with factory panels and look as close to a single piece as possible? At least the GT86 has a beveled side and rear areas of the trunk that could be used to an advantage as much as possible to blend with the trunk as much as possible.