Would removing the radiator exit grilles increase front downforce?
Mike Shinedling: It actually does, a little bit. We toyed with doing that early on in the program because it’s added weight as well. But it wasn’t significant enough. It exposes so much underhood hardware. We didn’t want people messing with the car, you know, in the parking lot. You can almost take the oil cap off the engine. Herb Helbig: It wasn’t a battle worth fighting. We got 98 percent of what we wanted by moving the louvers to the front. Taking the grilles out, we’ll let customers do that on their own. Mike Shinedling: The front splitter is supported at the leading edge by two stainless steel cables, and those actually have some adjustment capability as well. There’s a turnbuckle feature so owners can drop the splitter down a little bit and that will give them more front downforce. And all told, the aerodynamics that we added to the car were on a fairly efficient basis. The drag did of course increase, but we added downforce at a ratio of seven pounds of downforce for every one p
