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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:28 pm 
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was thinking of removing my wing when i re-do my rear bar what do you guys reckon

 

 

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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:59 pm 
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personally, no wing, looks smoother and cleaner

 

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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:01 pm 
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yeah thats what i reckon,makes the car look lower too IMO.
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:30 pm 
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I'm a big fan of wings, so I recon the wing...

For some reason the majority of people don't like wings :oops: , personally recon it just finishes it off but each to their own.

Well if you take it off and decide later it looks better on, you can always put it back on later anyway
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:41 pm 
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off with it, i hate the look of that wing, its too small. The EL XR tickford one looks best on ef/el
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:45 pm 
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Take it off, as you said makes the car look lower..

 

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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:18 pm 
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ive lost the vonom rear wing off the back of my white ef fairmont.. never looked back.. :wink: as can be seen in my gallery.. :wink:
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:52 am 
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take it off and slam one of those huge rectangle wings on. The ones that when you look outta your review mirror your actually though the wing, not above it :D
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:12 am 
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fordfreak ef wrote:
ive lost the vonom rear wing off the back of my white ef fairmont.. never looked back..


Hey if you lost it maybe the first place you should've looked was back behind u :lol:

 

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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:24 am 
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yeah think ill lose it
does look out of place if you follow the lines of the car.
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:16 am 
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NAfairlane... wrote:
fordfreak ef wrote:
ive lost the vonom rear wing off the back of my white ef fairmont.. never looked back..


Hey if you lost it maybe the first place you should've looked was back behind u :lol:
funny how they launch at 200km/h.. on the track.. :wink:
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:26 pm 
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One thing i noticed with my car when i lost the wing was its harder to judge when reversing because of the shape of the boot, thats the only down side. The up side is the boot stopped leaking and it looks 100x better.
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:20 pm 
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keep the wing on there. I am not a fan of wings but it gives the finishing touch to things like fairmonts and XR's.

My mate has one on the monty and i seen a monty without it and i think it really makes a difference.

I like the GLi and futura without the wing cause it makes it look lower.

Glen------- if u learn how to drive and know where your car is then u can judge that stuff instead of relying on the spoiler. :)

 

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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:15 am 
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GlennAUII wrote:
One thing i noticed with my car when i lost the wing was its harder to judge when reversing because of the shape of the boot, thats the only down side.

yeah the AUs are like that, cause of the sloping boot.
BA's the same to a lesser extent, the massive C pillars don't help when reversing.
No spoiler, those little spoilers are s**t anyway.
They look heaps cleaner without one.

 

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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:10 pm 
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stomper wrote:
Glen------- if u learn how to drive and know where your car is then u can judge that stuff instead of relying on the spoiler. :)
Steady ED wrote:
GlennAUII wrote:
One thing i noticed with my car when i lost the wing was its harder to judge when reversing because of the shape of the boot, thats the only down side.

yeah the AUs are like that, cause of the sloping boot.
BA's the same to a lesser extent, the massive C pillars don't help when reversing.
No spoiler, those little spoilers are s**t anyway.
They look heaps cleaner without one.

What steady ED said. Stomper i've never backed into anything before, i can judge distance behind my car but it is definately harder to do it without the wing due to the sloping bootlid, you can't see where it ends. If i was that s**t, i'd install a towbar like mitch_anderson did :twisted:
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