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Originally Posted by Dean Feiock
Can I ask why you would want to remove them?
Are you looking to make the car faster by aerodynamics?
Are you trying to save weight?
Does the car just look better without them?
I know several drives who did not have them and have recently put them back. They can be very useful if you are in a class where you are be chased quite often.
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I guess the weight which i know is not alot but you see I am a FAT @@@ (almost 300lbs) and I am having trouble getting it off me so I thought I would try to get as much as possible out of the car. Second would be aero dont know if it would make that much of a difference either but I recently read 2 articels one about the old IROC series that said that they picked up a couple of MPH by just removing them. (i know i am comparing apples and organges but it cant hurt) and the other was about salt flat cars and mirrors(again apples and oranges) And yet another talked specifically about fourth gen trans ams and firebirds and that the firebird hatch is worth about 1 mph+ over the transam wing. I have a transam hatch to put on my bracket car (95 firebird also) to test this theory but have not done it yet. As fars looks goes, unless I can get some kind of factory block off plate it will most likely NOT look better. I am trying to get every little bit I can because I know I will be down in the HP department at first untill I can learn some tricks and what to do and not do. I also know the smartest thing to do would be just to call somebody like Mr Josey and buy a engine but I would really like to do it myself anybody can write a check I want to at least be able to say I tried before I throw in the towl and write the check LOL!.