Bash Bar, Street Splitter, and Quick Fasteners!!!

This is going to be long. 

save your riddicule, and read... but first enjoy this sweet ass gif. 

Bashbars and Diffusers

The fun part about building a car that doesn't just reside on the track, or car shows is all of the cool research you get to do in the process of tackling something yourself. I would like to build a splitter for my car, but I also want to build a new bumper support bar that will host a few items as well.

the window banner is an inside joke. I just wanted to design something off the looks of my actual car.
(symmetry isn't my fine point in pen sketching) 

In the end I would like to powdercoat everything for longetivity, but I want the car to look as streetable as possible. Obviously the images below are some outlandish examples, I am a huge fan of Sam Ipman's diffuser setup. It's simple and can take a beating if needed, the only issue I think is it's rivited to the bumper directly and not braced by his chassis anywhere. I haven't seen it off of the car so I am going off assumption from some tumblr photo's he posted the other day.

basic bash bar design.

So I have a lot of things lined up, and I'm trying to build the car in my head rather than trying to measure, install, measure install, cut, create, modify, back to the drawingboard, etc.

Before the car receives it's color change I definitely want to paint the engine bay, before I bother doing that I need to do the wiring work's grand finale which is a different story and a host of other things... I don't like to daydream build too much because then shit gets expensive and you start stocking up thousands of dollars worth of parts to someday get installed and never do.

I also wanted to add a triangulated jack point to this so I can raise the car from the splitter. 

Below is a shot of Ken Suen's 8th generation honda civic. He probably has the most sturdy air splitter I have ever seen, his car is always at track events as well so it probably comes off super fast, can act as a jacking point for the car. Along with a host of other little things, I sat and examined it in person for like 10-15 minutes. Minus the fact he has mugen allen bolts everywhere which is hilarious in itself (baller) paired with godspeed stickers, which is a whole other story.

excuse my shitty 3d rendering of a 240sx 

The front lip, if you look a bit close to the picture you will see rivets, assuming the splitter is built out of alumilite he has a metal guard going all around, and it folds under it a bit too riveted on. I imagine that creates a very stiff platform to prevent any deformity. You can actually see 4 rods creeping down from his support bar through the bumper also which support the splitter.

images taken from the chronicles

Not only does that provide protection from impacts deforming the front area of the splitter, it's something that is removable if necessary (goodbye drillbit

The goal here isn't really fashion, but more function than anything... The big picture is basically this. I want to have a splitter/diffuser that mounts to the cars frame, but is also supported by the new bumper support/bash bar without those ugly ass rods hanging down.

Have just enough protection that I can go up driveways and no stress is put on any of the fiberglass(bumpers, fenders). Only the frame/diffuser. And have it look decent, doesn't need to be carbon fiber or any special weight saving material as long as it's rigid and wont fly off my car and kill anyone.

I also want to build a ducting system... So let me paint a picture for you.

This image right here is pretty close to what I want to accomplish with my setup.

bash bar, ducting, cooler mounts, all that's missing is headlight brackets. 

Here are other multiple setups I have been reading about all day, I want to make something very similar. Seems it's really easy to make a fiberglass or composite piece or even kevlar/carbon depending on what kind of budget you want to invest.

standard bash bar that mounds to the original oem front bar. Upper and lower support, as well as ducting into the v-mount setup it appears to have. 

Ideally this is the blueprint for most bash bars, some strong bent steel, a little bracing, but I want to take it up a notch. Now I am NOT completely set on having the headlights and corners come off with the bumper or keep that a separate system. It's going to be tricky, because to build the air duct to my radiator and intercooler I need to eliminate the legs of the headlight brackets connecting to the lower core support.

This particular car seems to have the most ideal splitter setup for what I want to do.
http://super86.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/under-tray-part-1-front-splitter/

This is a vertex ridge front bumper, it varies from the lang bumper because it curves upwards. The lang bumper is FLAT. Hence the distance variation from the edge of the bumper by the wheel well to the front. Most s14 bumpers are like this, mainly for ground clearance I suppose. 

This charge speed bumper is an example of a flat lipped aero bumper for an s14, I was unable to find more information about this splitter installed. 

Referenced articles, websites, where I stole images from haha mainly all articles were found using a google search.

http://super86.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/under-tray-part-1-front-splitter/
http://www.nissanroadracing.com/showthread.php?p=67412
http://www.nissanroadracing.com/showpost.php?s=67c370e5770f08533df772be084edad4&p=68154&postcount=80
http://200sxweb.blogspot.com/2011/10/splitter-mounted-to-frame.html
http://www.the-lowdown.com/heasman-s14/
http://www.stickydiljoe.com

Anyway the splitter, bash bar thing is a bit more complex than just having shit there to have shit. I want to finally install the air conditioning setup for my s14 and all that's missing is the condenser and lines. The condenser is going to be mounted in the front of the bumper diagonally leading to the wheel well.

Here is an example of how it's done, and I'll most likely have luis handle all of this stuff too since I am not too fond of welding. The wheel tubs and roof is where I stop!

What you're looking at is a porche a/c condenser obviously with an electric fan strapped to the back of it and the a/c mixer tank or whatever the fuck it's called. All out of sight, Luis didn't do this for style points, he's just set up for a v-mount so there is no room in the engine bay for this stuff.

He has since removed the setup and is looking to sell his DCC and sensors if you know anyone interested. (shameless plug)

Quick Releases

Now onto the skybolts setup. http://store.skybolt.com/zg4002-set1-p2702.aspx

Up close and personal of Ryan "Rywire" Basseri's Honda EA-T

The bumper is basically a shell, it's oem and urethane (must be nice) but does not fasten in the traditional manner. He has two of these here, and two up top. Makes for easy removal and access to the front core support. This is semi crucial to me, because I do a lot of work on my car when it breaks and anything engine related I either have to lean over the headlights and front bumper. Or I can spend about 20-30 minutes undoing about 20 allen screws and putting aside their seats along with removing my corner lights, and headlights.... It's a huge pain in the ass to be honest. 

Plus this will eliminate me using zipties to hold the bumper up on the sides which seems to cause fenders to blow the fuck up if the zipties don't break. 

From a distance how they look. 

With a bash bar to mount the bumper to with quick releases the only thing that will blow up now is the bumper itself, but it will have to get past the splitter/diffuser itself...

As I research this and get closer to setting this in motion, I will document all of the things I plan on doing to bring this thought and dream to a reality.

I'll end this off with some s14 history/porn. from ziptied.com the internet's butthole itself.

http://www.ziptied.com/forums/index.php?topic=7879.675

minds blown?

thanks for reading.