Undercarriage aero panels: Not on US BRZ?

[Lighting Red]

Originally Posted by PERRIN_Jeff

Interesting if the FR-S has these panels and the BRZ doesn't. The plastic parts can't cost that much. Overall, they would be the preferred material for noise alone. Some of those aluminum panels can make a bunch of noise with wind and then crap hitting them.

Wouldn't that be a fortunate turn of events. We need to get ahold of the FR-S service manual.

[Jeff Lange]

Originally Posted by PERRIN_Jeff

Interesting if the FR-S has these panels and the BRZ doesn't. The plastic parts can't cost that much. Overall, they would be the preferred material for noise alone. Some of those aluminum panels can make a bunch of noise with wind and then crap hitting them.

I've seen a couple FR-S' models and they didn't have them, and the parts catalog says they don't come with them, so I'm going to go with they don't.

Jeff

[PERRIN_Jeff]

Bummer. Well JDM it is!

[Turbowned]

Originally Posted by PERRIN_Jeff

Interesting if the FR-S has these panels and the BRZ doesn't. The plastic parts can't cost that much. Overall, they would be the preferred material for noise alone. Some of those aluminum panels can make a bunch of noise with wind and then crap hitting them.

Wouldn't it be great if a company were to make similar under body panels out of plastic to sell at a reasonable cost? *wink* *nudge*

[DRACHENV6]

Yeah that would be awesome. If someone had the resources they should mass produce car under panels for just about every make and model car on the road, and sell it for cheap. There would be so much $$$ on volume sales alone.

[PERRIN_Jeff]

For sure plastic is a good way to go, but its not a cheap thing to produce on a small scale level. That is why sheet metal is a good way to go. Just not sure about the noise. The good thing is, its early on. Give it a few months, and lets see what we come up with.

[Brian S]

Originally Posted by ICantAffordAnLFA

You won't miss them ; dead weight

Why would you want them?

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Weight vs. Drag..

[Spartan65]

Originally Posted by PERRIN_Jeff

There is this panel on the left side. Its really just for covering brake and fuel lines.




1- Large plastic shield

2- Thick Aluminum Panel

3- Fiberglass woven nylon panel

4- One plastic under panel

Best part is there are threaded holes on both sides to accepct the JDM parts. But like you said, its watered down a bit.

I just want the panel that would be on the passenger side across from the panel marked #4.

[gmookher]

Originally Posted by PERRIN_Jeff

Interesting if the FR-S has these panels and the BRZ doesn't. The plastic parts can't cost that much. Overall, they would be the preferred material for noise alone. Some of those aluminum panels can make a bunch of noise with wind and then crap hitting them.

My BRZ has all these panels factory

[jkonquer]

Originally Posted by Draco-REX

Yeah, the GD STI lost a couple underside panels on the trip to the US also. But when you can buy a car on the other side of the planet from the factory for cheaper than you could if you were just down the road, there will be some trimming done.

but they place them on later 05 models. so we might just get them in later year brz or frs

[Draco-REX]

Originally Posted by jkonquer

but they place them on later 05 models. so we might just get them in later year brz or frs

Not all of them, there are still aero panels up front that were missing on even the 07 model.

[jkonquer]

Thats weird my 05 had all the panels

[RWD-boxer]

Originally Posted by DRACHENV6

Well that's sad. I wonder what the effects are on overall highway mpg. It would have made for decent protection against road salt in the winter...

Winter driving the brz I don't think so

[PMok]

does anyone else think this would work? in the same vein as the coroplast...

cut some flat cardboard to fit the areas you want, bolt or clip them on. Then hit that up with some black Krylon or Rhino paint or whatever. super cheap, gets the job done, easy to replace?