Spook mounting

[WW2Winger]

I have a BRE style Spook that I have not put on yet. Speaking of that Arne, I would love to see underside pictures of your spook and how you mounted it. I remember when you did it but never saw the results. Right now though, my front end is stock and I intend to install the spook after I see what the new wheels and tires present.

[dhoneycutt]

... Speaking of that Arne, I would love to see underside pictures of your spook and how you mounted it. I remember when you did it but never saw the results...

Add me to the list. I'd like to see it too!!:classic:

[Arne]

I split this out into a separate thread, since it wasn't tire related.

Here's what I did, others are welcome to chime in if they did something different.

I ended up with 9 stainless bolts across the front. Each bolt has a large fender washer both above and below, to distribute the stress. The first picture shows where I drilled the holes.

Edited August 22, 2008 by Arne

[hls30.com]

I'll add one detail, that I forgot the last time we posted on mounting the airdam.

I ran three beads of black seam sealer on the contact area before tightening the bolts, to keep the fiberglass from ever squeeking, and the valence from rusting because of vibration wearing through the paint/gelcoat to leave raw fiberglass and raw metal in contact(that had obviously happened on the POs installation(granted he used only five bolts for mounting), but in the interest of keeping the car for my sons to enjoy, an ounce of prevention hopefully will mean they don't have to mess with it.

Will

[Zedyone_kenobi]

I was thinking of doing the same thing. Can you pick up that sealer at the local auto parts store?

[Carl Beck]

Here are the BRE Instructions.

You will notice that there are three places at the rear of the spook - that should line up with the existing captive nuts on the bottom of the radiator core support {aka Front Cross Member}.

Arne's doesn't seem to reach back there. The Spooks that I bought from Les are exactly the same as the original .. and mount to the underside of the radiator core support..

FWIW,

Carl B.

[mriz]

Sort of related. On the air dam I installed on my 280 I bought rubber faucet washers drilled them out and installed them between where the fiberglass and metal touch.

[Wade Nelson]

Spook = front air dam?

[jfa.series1]

Spook = front air dam?

Spook!!!

[Wade Nelson]

We once mounted a neighbor kid to our front bumper like that. He was white as a ghost when we unstrapped him, didn't talk for two days.

Didn't seem to do much for high speed stability either.

[Zedyone_kenobi]

JFA that front spook has a strange shape to its sides.... Mine has a totally different angle.

My front view:

My side view

[jfa.series1]

Stephan,

My Spook is a 1st-gen BRE model, used only in the 1970 SCCA competition. The design was revised to your model beginning with the 1971 season. If you have any doubts on the authenticity of my Spook, check out the vintage photos for sale on the BRE site. The John Morton car for 1970 has my model on it. I suspect the 1st-gen version did not generate adequate downforce and was more of an air dam, thus the revised version.

Jim