Sti8 "Flexi Spoiler"!!!
 

Anyone else noticed how flexible the STi8 spoiler is? It bows up and down at motorway speeds and when you close the boot it wobbles and twangs!

Does anyone make a decent direct replacement (exact replica preferably) that is stiff (out of carbon fibre maybe)?

cheers :)

i get the same with mine mate but mine seams to stiffen up at speeds over 80

Not to everyone taste but...

http://www.nevetas.co.uk/albums/albu...dium.sized.jpg

Carbon Fibre top.

Cheers guys.... any manufacturers links?

Nevetas,

Looking good - any more piccies?

Is that the Scoobysport spoiler and is it possible to get it non-CF version?

Ta muchly,

Apple

ajm
Before you commit to a new spoiler, check out all the bolt holes, theres about 8 or 9 on mine, and changing the spoiler would mean a new boot lid
Mine wobbles like a limp banana too, even at high speed, so i dont think you are actually getting any downforce from it, if you were it would be pressed down.

Paul

Paul,

Yeah, I had a look at the bolts (checked them for tightness) which is one of the reasons I was wondering if an exact replica was available so it would be a straight swap. I would be surprised if a CF replica wasn't available somewhere... :(

You might as well change the wobbly intercooler scoop whilst you are at it ;)

Looks like a ScoobySport one to me. Link here ;)

What are you guys complaining about? It's flexible, so what? Ferrari tried flexible aerofoils in F1 a couple of years ago, and all the other teams tried to have them banned on the grounds that they were more effective.

Sounds to me like Subaru know what they're doing... :D

hmmmm.... wasn't the idea of a flexible spoiler so that it would reduce pitch at higher speed hence reducing drag? My simple mind fails to see how Subaru's vibrating spoiler achieves the same thing! ;)

Hiya,

Mine doesn't wobble at any speed. It's hard as nails :D

Yes it's a scoobysport one.

I've got an Sti 7/8 spoiler on my WRX MY02..... :)

on Bob Rawle's "private track" (TeK3 :) ) I was looking at the boost gauge and the other traffic..... Not much time to look in the rear view mirror for wobbling spoiler :)

325 BHP at the last Well lane RR day... :D :D ..concentrate on the road in front and let people behind worry :D

Midlife.....

My UK300 spoiler flexes a bit too.

Does that improve its looks ;) :D

My only real issue with the floppy Sti8 spoiler is that at night, when tramping along, if you have one of those german motors with ice blue lights behind you, you get a strobe effect that looks like the rozzers blue lights behind you. :eek: I've had a few frights...

GM

got it from wrc website, the new subaru designer comes from ferrari n used to do the designing in ferrari F1!!!!!

don get me wrong, i luuuvvveeee ferrari, but a subaru-ferrari hybrid is NOT something that i would like to see.

rgrds

Ha! I thought it was only me that suffered with that! It's very disconcerting isn't it?!

i used to get that on my STI7,why dont they do what my EVO8 fq has,and make the blade part carbon fibre,mine looks great and doesnt flex one bit.

If you look on Litchfield Imports website and I think the type 25 website you will find options or accessories.

One of these IIRC are the vertical bits like on the WRC. Now that would stiffen the spolier up a bit! (looks expensive though £400-£500).

Can't get on the type25 website at the mo to add the link.

When you mention 'at speeds over 80', im guessing thats KPH....!!!!!!!!

mine doesnt flex at 130 MPH yes MPH