[Unsightedscarab]

Story time: Had been searching for a decent front lip and had the unique opportunity to aquire a real carbon fiber front splitter for my friend after his BRZ got totalled. The splitter was 98% instact and I got it for a fraction of its original price. I figured why not.

For reference here's the original product.

Carbon Polyweave Adjustable Front Splitter - BRZ/FRS/GT86

High-Performance Composite Front Splitter - Reduce lift and increase downforce with Verus Engineering's splitter for BRZ/FRS/GT86. Buy now!

www.verus-engineering.com

Install was actually decently straight forward with only a little bit of ******* engineering.
I wanted this splitter to be actually chassis mounted and functional.
All I had to buy was some new splitter rods and some garage door seal to make a functional air dam on top.
It's mounted directly to the front crash beam on the front two mounting holes and on the rear it's mounted to the frame on the rear.
Making an air dam took some experimenting to see where air was pushing hard and using self tapping screws to tighten it down and hold it in place.
After getting everything set up I adjusted the splitter to a -2° down angle of attack in parallel to the ground.
Overall though what a performance difference for the front end at 50mph+. The front end at high speed felt somewhat unpredictable before but now it feels absolutely planted. Also oddly enough I noticed about a 2mpg increase in efficiency. Not for my heavy foots lack of trying. (Might had to look into building an under panel to redirect air)
All in all if you're looking for a functional front splitter the BRZ splitters does fit decently well.

Cons: I do daily drive this car and I do occasionally scrape. Comes with the territory of being lowered and having a front splitter.

Also I've been using this splitter like this since Feb 11th and have had zero issues.

 

[Widgmaster]

Nice find.

 

[MCMike37]

While nicely done, let's not kid ourselves. A splitter does zero for MPG or performance on this car (Or just about any that mortal folks can afford) as they only really have any effectiveness at higher speeds that what you find are allowed on most streets.

If you want better better handling and feel in the front, adjust your suspension settings, reduce overall weight (Minor gains, but things like AC system, windshield washer pump/reservoir, relocate battery, etc) and/or get better tires. For example, since I went to JICs I run about -2.5° camber in the front and about -1° or so in the rear. That with a 255 series tire and rear sway and strut bars made a much bigger difference than what a splitter along without all the accompanying aerodynamics would do. Shoot, I would argue that you probably increased drag and hurt your performance instead of helping it out. Without wing tunnel and instrumented track testing I am sorry to say it's purely aesthetical.

 

[chinchooter11]

While nicely done, let's not kid ourselves. A splitter does zero for MPG or performance on this car (Or just about any that mortal folks can afford) as they only really have any effectiveness at higher speeds that what you find are allowed on most streets.

If you want better better handling and feel in the front, adjust your suspension settings, reduce overall weight (Minor gains, but things like AC system, windshield washer pump/reservoir, relocate battery, etc) and/or get better tires. For example, since I went to JICs I run about -2.5° camber in the front and about -1° or so in the rear. That with a 255 series tire and rear sway and strut bars made a much bigger difference than what a splitter along without all the accompanying aerodynamics would do. Shoot, I would argue that you probably increased drag and hurt your performance instead of helping it out. Without wing tunnel and instrumented track testing I am sorry to say it's purely aesthetical.

not sure if this is completely true, that having a front splitter does nothing for performance on this vehicle. As I agree it does nothing good for a street car what do ever but for an actual track car this could be beneficial for high speed corners if paired with a proper wing. Or even heavy braking into a corner. If the class I was in for Gridlife didn’t prohibit aero I would have already put a front splitter and wing on my car. If I were to join super lap battle I would be able to have aero but there events are a lot feather for me to attend.

Kudos to you for actually mounting it right but alot of people at least grassroots racers make them out of plywood and conform them to the bumpers. It’s more cost efficient because of the probability of them breaking or cracking under high loads or going off track.

 

[MCMike37]

not sure if this is completely true, that having a front splitter does nothing for performance on this vehicle. As I agree it does nothing good for a street car what do ever but for an actual track car this could be beneficial for high speed corners if paired with a proper wing. Or even heavy braking into a corner. If the class I was in for Gridlife didn’t prohibit aero I would have already put a front splitter and wing on my car. If I were to join super lap battle I would be able to have aero but there events are a lot feather for me to attend.

Completely agree it you have a track only car and are really into it could be useful. It's an assumption on my part, but that car doesn't look like it sees heavy track if any.....

 

[Unsightedscarab]

While nicely done, let's not kid ourselves. A splitter does zero for MPG or performance on this car (Or just about any that mortal folks can afford) as they only really have any effectiveness at higher speeds that what you find are allowed on most streets.

If you want better better handling and feel in the front, adjust your suspension settings, reduce overall weight (Minor gains, but things like AC system, windshield washer pump/reservoir, relocate battery, etc) and/or get better tires. For example, since I went to JICs I run about -2.5° camber in the front and about -1° or so in the rear. That with a 255 series tire and rear sway and strut bars made a much bigger difference than what a splitter along without all the accompanying aerodynamics would do. Shoot, I would argue that you probably increased drag and hurt your performance instead of helping it out. Without wing tunnel and instrumented track testing I am sorry to say it's purely aesthetical.

So the thing with this specific splitter is that it actually has been wind tunnel tested on a brz and shows decent improvement in both creating smoother air underneath the car and redirecting air around the car. Also when I said I got this cheap I literally got it for 100$ off a friend of mine. Unlike most of the cheap Amazon splitters mounted to the front bumper cover this is fully mounted to the crash structure and frame. And I've actually helped a couple of friends of mine build the plywood splitters on their car to go to COTA so I understand the concept.
Now that being said obviously this isn't a brz. That's why I made the air dam to conform to this bumper. And actually when we pulled it off of his brz it had an air dam above this splitter as well. He tracked that car weekly.

Smoothing the air underneath the car creates a pressure zone that will suck the front end of the car to the ground. And yes the top half probably does increase drag slightly at the bonus of more grip from that air pulling the splitter downward and in turn pulling the front of the car down. And btw yes I do agree that weight reduction does help and a wider tire would as well. No going to argue that. But I can tell you that this is definitely far from an "looks" mod.

I also do go out on back roads and push my car decently hard. I can tell you there's definitely a difference. Also on high speed turns it's way more planted.
I'm not saying what you're saying is incorrect. But to call it a aesthetic mod is incorrect.
If I wanted it for looks I wouldn't have bothered chassis mounting it and calculating the angle of attack.

Also here's the aero data directly from versus engineering's website.