430 Which is the BEST Carbon Diffuser for F430

Wow looks good, so which brand is that one? Funny in your last picture it almost looked like it had rock chips in it until I realized it was the reflection of the colored specs in your epoxy floor LoL. Looks great!

 

Thanks Flea7 for your feedback. The picture I saw of painted on the back appeared to show carbon weave through it. But I agree, saves weight if it is not painted, as long as it is durable enough to not be affected by chemicals, definitely good to have weight savings. What I meant about a tuner is someone who changes their car so much from original it isn’t original any,ore. To each his taste, but I prefer original. Although, I must admit I put a Capristo exhaust on mine primarily to try and find a way to save the headers. I knew what Capristo was and sounded like because I test drove a Ferrari F430 that had it installed, though I did not buy it, went for one with less mikes. I kept my stock exhaust so I can put it back anytime. Anyways, thanks for your feedback and pictures.

 

nice pictures I assume these are your products and pictures of what the backside looks like when not painted?

 

Very nice pictures, thanks for posting. They really show hoe the carbon looks, you can even see the rivets (I think that is what they are that hold the wings on the diffuser. Nice product.

 

Wow, a wear item, I cannot afford to treat it as a wear item, glad you have the money to do this. How low is your car as compared with stock?

 

Good point. I feel a fool to have made the mistake I did. I maintain the car myself and use a electric drill with torque setting set to put all the bolts back on. Up until now my experience is that it is easier to over tighten and strip something, especially when dealing with aluminum, than to keave too loose. From now on I am going to hand tight/check those bolts. You are right, if they are loose they will vibrate right out of there.

I debated, I have had the car just over 4 years, upgrading it to Carbon anyways, so this just gets me off the fence LoL

 

I just weighed the stock diffuser and it is 20.2 pounds. So Exotic Car Gear Diffuser saves a lot of weight

 

Based on the Exotic Car Gear being 10.8, that is a 47% lighter than stock fiberglass diffuser wow!

 

Ray,

thanks for your feedback. Yeah I feel so bad about what happened. I have 7 vehicles all of which I have built engines for and done body work on, been working on cars and engines for most of my life, I always use torque wrenches when assembling engines and suspension. So you can imagine how bad I felt to make such an obvious mistake.

Instead of relying on the tool set to s specified torque, if I had hand tightened them afterwards I am positive this wouldn’t have happened.

on most cars such a mistake would have just been a lose body part, but as we know on our Ferraris with flat plane crank everything vibrates like crazy. I was even thinking from now on to put some blue lock tight on the bolds for the diffuser.

does anyone know what the actual torque is supposed to be on these bolts?

 

Sorry for my spelling mistakes, my two thumbs don’t work as fast as my brain does LOL. I meant bolts not bolds, and loose not lose. I have put many a underbody panel on, such as on my SL63 Mercedes, and never had such a problem, usually, worst case scenario, they just work a little loose. I imagine it was the vibration in combination of the pressure of the diffuser pushing down on them that made them unscrew so quickly.

when I get the Exotic Car Gear diffuser I am going to make sure they are lock tightened with blue lock tight, because I like to keep my car flawless.

 

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For those of you who might be curious, Hopefully you can see the picture I inserted, I took the liberty of looking it up in my shop manual, looks like 6nm for the screws and the hex head bolts that hold diffuser on. Normally I do not have to look these things up, but no doubt I need a lesson on this one LOL